February 10 » French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
May 7 » Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
June 2 » Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
September 14 » Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
October 7 » King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
December 2 » Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.
Day of marriage May 17, 1791
The temperature on May 17, 1791 was about 13.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
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