April 9 » Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
May 6 » Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
August 24 » William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
September 14 » Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
October 27 » Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Day of death April 17, 1768
The temperature on April 17, 1768 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. Source: KNMI
February 29 » Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
April 4 » In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
May 10 » Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
November 5 » Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
December 1 » The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
December 10 » The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
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