The temperature on April 6, 1749 was about 12.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
Day of marriage May 22, 1776
The temperature on May 22, 1776 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
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