| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Feb 13 |
Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia |
Feb 24 |
Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India |
May 1 |
Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) |
Jun 8 |
Commercially made icecream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC) |
Jun 10 |
A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China. |
Jun 29 |
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. |
Jul 29 |
1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette |
Aug 2 |
Utrechtse Vroedschap flees |
Aug 8 |
US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money |
Aug 8 |
Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc |
Aug 11 |
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia |
Aug 29 |
Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass |
Sep 4 |
-5] Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg |
Sep 5 |
Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium |
Sep 11 |
Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce |
Sep 26 |
Britain & France sign trade agreement |
Oct 15 |
Earliest 32°F (0°C) recorded temp in NYC |
Oct 20 |
Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US |
Nov 7 |
The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society. |
Nov 30 |
Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day. |
Dec 29 |
French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked |
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