The temperature on June 30, 1754 was about 15.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen hagel. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
Day of marriage December 29, 1776
The temperature on December 29, 1776 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
September 9 » The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
September 10 » American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
September 15 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
Day of burial February 4, 1791
The temperature on February 4, 1791 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
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