January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
June 23 » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
Day of marriage December 21, 1783
The temperature on December 21, 1783 was about 2.0 °C. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
May 26 » A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
November 3 » The American Continental Army is disbanded.
December 4 » At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
Day of death June 4, 1833
The temperature on June 4, 1833 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken bui. Source: KNMI
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De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
January 2 » Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, arrives at Port Egmont to reassert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
January 3 » The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
February 6 » Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
July 11 » Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
November 25 » A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
December 18 » The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
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