The temperature on October 8, 1782 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
April 19 » John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
November 30 » American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
Day of death August 22, 1787
The temperature on August 22, 1787 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
May 25 » After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
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.
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