February 13 » Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
February 19 » The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
May 9 » Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
October 28 » The novel Gulliver's Travels is published.
Day of marriage February 5, 1743
The temperature on February 5, 1743 was about 5.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
May 12 » Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
May 19 » Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
June 27 » In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
September 13 » Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
Day of death July 17, 1791
The temperature on July 17, 1791 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
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.
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