Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Date of action in the opera "Madeleine" |
Jan 13 |
De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris |
Jan 19 |
Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) |
Mar 5 |
Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Native African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die. Later held up as early black martyr. Galvanised anti-British feelings |
Apr 12 |
Townsend Acts repealed |
Apr 19 |
Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname |
Apr 19 |
British explorer Captain James Cook 1st sights Australia |
Apr 20 |
Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales |
Apr 28 |
Capt James Cook aboad Endeavour lands at Botany Bay in Australia |
May 26 |
The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks. |
Jun 3 |
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif |
Jun 11 |
Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia |
Jun 19 |
General Church of New Jerusalem established |
Jun 19 |
Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion. |
Jun 28 |
Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia |
Jul 5 |
Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. |
Jul 6 |
Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish |
Aug 22 |
James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia. |
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