May 21 » The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
September 5 » Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
Day of marriage May 5, 1750
The temperature on May 5, 1750 was about 13.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
November 11 » Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
November 11 » The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
November 24 » Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
Day of death January 2, 1791
The temperature on January 2, 1791 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken dampig. Source: KNMI
March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
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