The temperature on January 28, 1762 was about 8.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
May 5 » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
June 6 » In the Seven Years' War, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city.
July 17 » Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
Day of death September 26, 1780
The temperature on September 26, 1780 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York
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