March 8 » Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
March 11 » The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.
July 19 » Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
November 10 » English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
December 30 » Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
Day of marriage May 22, 1729
The temperature on May 22, 1729 was about 23.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: helder regen onweer. Source: KNMI
November 9 » Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
November 29 » Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
Day of death August 13, 1787
The temperature on August 13, 1787 was about 17.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
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