March 9 » Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three year occupation.
May 23 » After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
July 19 » Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
August 4 » Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
October 9 » The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
Day of marriage April 9, 1720
The temperature on April 9, 1720 was about 6.0 °C. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
February 29 » Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24.
March 24 » Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February
August 14 » The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
October 20 » Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
November 9 » The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
Day of death March 17, 1776
The temperature on March 17, 1776 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
October 11 » American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
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