January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
March 14 » Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMSMonarch for breach of the Articles of War.
May 6 » Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
Day of marriage May 26, 1778
The temperature on May 26, 1778 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
July 10 » American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
July 27 » American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
September 17 » The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe.
November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
Day of death November 26, 1793
The temperature on November 26, 1793 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
January 21 » After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
January 23 » Second Partition of Poland.
August 10 » The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
October 13 » French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
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