The temperature on November 28, 1740 was about 8.0 °C. There was 114 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
Day of marriage June 4, 1769
The temperature on June 4, 1769 was about 13.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
July 14 » An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
July 16 » Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California.
December 13 » Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
December 22 » Sino-Burmese War: The war ends with an uneasy truce.
Day of death April 11, 1792
The temperature on April 11, 1792 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
April 21 » Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
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