March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
Day of death November 20, 1776
The temperature on November 20, 1776 was about 12.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
March 9 » The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
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).
September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
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