June 4 » Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
June 16 » War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
July 26 » The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
August 19 » Ottoman–Persian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
September 21 » A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
November 8 » Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
Day of marriage August 19, 1764
The temperature on August 19, 1764 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Day of death December 13, 1768
The temperature on December 13, 1768 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: sneeuw zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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