January 26 » Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
March 8 » Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
April 15 » Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.
May 26 » The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
October 16 » Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
Day of death August 31, 1775
The temperature on August 31, 1775 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. Source: KNMI
February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
May 20 » The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
December 3 » USSAlfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
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