March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
July 31 » Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
Day of marriage December 6, 1778
The temperature on December 6, 1778 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer half bewolkt omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
June 18 » American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
August 21 » American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
September 19 » The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
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