February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
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 burial August 16, 1779
The temperature on August 16, 1779 was about 28.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: zeer half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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