The temperature on December 5, 1740 was about 3.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: sneeuw zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
Day of death February 7, 1793
The temperature on February 7, 1793 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
June 24 » The French Constitution of 1793 is formally adopted, although it is effectively suspended by the Committee of Public Safety.
July 22 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
August 27 » French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
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