May 18 » The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
June 20 » A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
July 30 » In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
August 29 » Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.
September 8 » French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
Day of marriage September 11, 1785
The temperature on September 11, 1785 was about 17.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.
Day of death December 4, 1789
The temperature on December 4, 1789 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
June 20 » Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
July 10 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
September 26 » George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
October 19 » John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
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