January 14 » American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
March 22 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
Day of death January 2, 1862
The temperature on January 2, 1862 was about 1.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
May 5 » Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
July 1 » Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
December 12 » American Civil War: USSCairo sinks on the Yazoo River.
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