January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
Day of marriage November 4, 1792
The temperature on November 4, 1792 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
May 21 » A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that kills nearly 15,000 people.
September 11 » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
October 13 » In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
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