July 2 » Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
September 5 » In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
Day of marriage August 6, 1736
The temperature on August 6, 1736 was about 23.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
March 8 » Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
April 15 » Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.
May 26 » The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
October 16 » Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
Day of burial April 7, 1780
The temperature on April 7, 1780 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
August 16 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf Massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
October 10 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York
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