The temperature on April 14, 1761 was about 7.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: regen helder. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
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