March 4 » John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
October 29 » Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
November 2 » Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
November 11 » Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
December 11 » Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.
December 19 » The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
Day of death November 13, 1755
The temperature on November 13, 1755 was about 8.0 °C. There was 180 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
February 13 » Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into 2: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
April 2 » Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
July 9 » The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
July 25 » British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
November 25 » King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
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