The temperature on December 16, 1764 was about 3.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: donker betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Day of death June 29, 1778
The temperature on June 29, 1778 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: donder. Source: KNMI
January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
May 1 » American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
June 18 » American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
July 10 » American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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