May 12 » Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
May 19 » Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
June 27 » In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
September 13 » Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
Day of marriage November 23, 1769
The temperature on November 23, 1769 was about 4.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: regen omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
July 14 » An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
July 16 » Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California.
December 13 » Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
December 22 » Sino-Burmese War: The war ends with an uneasy truce.
Day of death March 23, 1785
The temperature on March 23, 1785 was about -3 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.
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