The temperature on January 15, 1766 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
Day of marriage May 18, 1783
The temperature on May 18, 1783 was about 14.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north by east. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
March 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
May 26 » A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
Day of burial September 28, 1870
The temperature on September 28, 1870 was about 20.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. Source: KNMI
From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.
October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
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