January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
December 5 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
Day of marriage July 1, 1783
The temperature on July 1, 1783 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
April 15 » Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
September 3 » American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
December 4 » At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Day of death February 15, 1787
The temperature on February 15, 1787 was about 6.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
May 25 » After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
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