January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
Day of marriage February 23, 1783
The temperature on February 23, 1783 was about 10.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
August 4 » Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
November 4 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
Day of burial March 3, 1806
The temperature on March 3, 1806 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
January 8 » Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes a British colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.
July 10 » The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
July 12 » At the insistence of Napoleon, Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg and thirteen minor principalities leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
September 23 » Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
October 17 » Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
November 15 » Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)
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