April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
Day of marriage February 6, 1764
The temperature on February 6, 1764 was about 9.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Day of death July 22, 1783
The temperature on July 22, 1783 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
May 26 » A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
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