The temperature on June 30, 1771 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
Day of death March 27, 1773
The temperature on March 27, 1773 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: hagel sneeuw betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
May 10 » The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
June 17 » Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
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