May 7 » The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
May 15 » James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
June 26 » Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
July 21 » The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
November 22 » Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
November 30 » King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
Day of death August 15, 1778
The temperature on August 15, 1778 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
February 9 » Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
May 1 » American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
August 21 » American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
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.
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