North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, Book Title: History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble, of Westfied, Massachusetts : With Genealogical Notes of Other Families by the Name of Noble / Ancestry.com
January 15 » Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
May 6 » Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
June 20 » The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
September 14 » American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.
Day of death February 18, 1871
The temperature on February 18, 1871 was about 6.1 °C. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
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