January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
Day of marriage October 31, 1779
The temperature on October 31, 1779 was about 14.0 °C. There was 572 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: . Source: KNMI
February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
Day of death July 11, 1785
The temperature on July 11, 1785 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. 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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