The temperature on December 20, 1739 was about 8.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Day of death June 5, 1776
The temperature on June 5, 1776 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
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).
November 20 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
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