The temperature on February 1, 1745 was about 4.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: sneeuw regen. Source: KNMI
June 16 » War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
July 26 » The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
September 21 » A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
November 8 » Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
December 4 » Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising.
December 6 » Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
Christening day August 10, 1749
The temperature on August 10, 1749 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: regen omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: weerlicht donder. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
Day of marriage August 16, 1776
The temperature on August 16, 1776 was about 18.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken weerlicht. Source: KNMI
January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
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