January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
August 23 » Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.
December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
Day of death September 25, 1781
The temperature on September 25, 1781 was about 8.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
January 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
February 3 » American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
February 18 » Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
August 5 » The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
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