The temperature on May 25, 1765 was about 9.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen donker. Source: KNMI
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 October 28, 1792
The temperature on October 28, 1792 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
April 21 » Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
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