February 29 » King Alaungpaya founds Konbaung Dynasty, the last dynasty of Burmese monarchy.
April 20 » Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
June 15 » Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
September 2 » Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the Gregorian calendar.
September 14 » The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
Day of marriage October 13, 1771
The temperature on October 13, 1771 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: droog. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
Day of death February 4, 1773
The temperature on February 4, 1773 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
June 17 » Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
October 12 » America's first insane asylum opens.
October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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