Alternative names: Franciscus Gijsbertus Swinckels (maiden name, name before first marriage), Johannes Francis Swinckels (maiden name, name before first marriage), Joannes Swinckels (maiden name, name before first marriage), Joannes Franciscus Swijnckels (maiden name, name before first marriage), Johannes Franciscus Swinkels (maiden name, name before first marriage), Joannes Francis Swinckels, Joannes Franciscus Gijsbertus Swinkels, Joannes Swinkels
August 1 » George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
August 7 » The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
September 11 » Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
September 18 » George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.
Day of marriage June 24, 1736
The temperature on June 24, 1736 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
March 8 » Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
April 15 » Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.
May 26 » The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
October 16 » Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
Day of death February 6, 1786
The temperature on February 6, 1786 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
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 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
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).
Day of burial February 10, 1786
The temperature on February 10, 1786 was about 4.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. Source: KNMI
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