The temperature on March 2, 1774 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen hagel omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
Day of marriage May 6, 1792
The temperature on May 6, 1792 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
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