The temperature on September 28, 1749 was about 13.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
Day of marriage March 17, 1776
The temperature on March 17, 1776 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
April 7 » Captain John Barry and the USSLexington captures the Edward.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
September 9 » The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
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