March 24 » Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
Day of marriage July 12, 1761
The temperature on July 12, 1761 was about 20.0 °C. There was 114 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: donder regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 9 » The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
April 7 » Captain John Barry and the USSLexington captures the Edward.
May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
Day of burial December 3, 1776
The temperature on December 3, 1776 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
August 31 » William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
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