The temperature on February 28, 1741 was about 7.0 °C. There was 29 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
July 31 » Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
Day of marriage April 18, 1776
The temperature on April 18, 1776 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
March 17 » American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
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