The temperature on May 7, 1776 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
June 15 » Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
Day of death January 12, 1788
The temperature on January 12, 1788 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 20 » The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
June 21 » New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
July 25 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
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