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 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
Day of marriage May 20, 1787
The temperature on May 20, 1787 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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