March 20 » The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.
Day of marriage November 4, 1786
The temperature on November 4, 1786 was about 3.0 °C. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
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