The temperature on April 16, 1775 was about 6.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
July 26 » The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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