March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
Day of death May 28, 1783
The temperature on May 28, 1783 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: betrokken regen donder weerlicht. Source: KNMI
March 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
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