The temperature on March 23, 1750 was about 9.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
November 11 » Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
November 11 » The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
November 24 » Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
Day of marriage December 12, 1774
The temperature on December 12, 1774 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
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.
August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
Day of death March 11, 1793
The temperature on March 11, 1793 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
June 10 » French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
July 22 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
September 8 » French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
December 18 » Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMSLutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
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