February 12 » Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.
May 29 » The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.
July 30 » The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
November 23 » The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
Day of marriage May 17, 1760
The temperature on May 17, 1760 was about 10.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
March 20 » The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
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