The temperature on November 24, 1776 was about 4.0 °C. There was 132 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
Day of death February 2, 1791
The temperature on February 2, 1791 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zwaar storm(achtig) weerlicht onweer. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
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