April 9 » Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
May 6 » Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
August 24 » William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
September 14 » Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
October 27 » Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Day of death April 6, 1760
The temperature on April 6, 1760 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: rijp. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
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