The temperature on January 19, 1766 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
Day of marriage October 6, 1792
The temperature on October 6, 1792 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
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