The temperature on January 12, 1764 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Day of death June 15, 1792
The temperature on June 15, 1792 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
April 21 » Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
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