February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
December 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Day of death December 7, 1864
The temperature on December 7, 1864 was about 3.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
July 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.
October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
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