The temperature on December 20, 1741 was about 3.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
Day of death January 15, 1783
The temperature on January 15, 1783 was about 6.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
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