The temperature on June 25, 1760 was about 15.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
Day of marriage February 27, 1782
The temperature on February 27, 1782 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
April 9 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of the Saintes begins.
April 19 » John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
June 20 » The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
December 16 » British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.
Day of death April 7, 1835
The temperature on April 7, 1835 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
January 8 » The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
February 15 » Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect.
May 5 » The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
August 30 » Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
November 24 » The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
December 29 » The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
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