Person report

★11 Apr 1713
The main treaties of the Peace of Utrecht were signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht, helping to end the War of the Spanish Succession.

★15 Apr 1738
Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.

★21 Feb 1746
Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

★07 May 1763
Pontiac of the Odawa Native American tribe led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.

★11 Jun 1776
The Second Continental Congress established the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence for Britain's Thirteen Colonies.

★27 Aug 1776
British forces led by William Howe defeated the American Continental Army under George Washington at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War.

★31 Jul 1777
The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution allowing French nobleman the Marquis de Lafayette to enter the American revolutionary forces as a major general.

★23 Feb 1778
American Revolutionary War: Prussian military officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge as a volunteer for the Continental Army.

★19 May 1780
A combination of thick smoke, fog, and heavy cloud cover caused darkness to fall on parts of Canada and the New England area of the United States by noon.

★07 Jan 1782
The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the United States' first de facto central bank.

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Noter : Gedstedpræ         stens sø         n, den vellæ         rde studius Klavs Borch der dø         de den 5/8 1782 som degn for Ulbjerg og Lynderup sogne, 71 å         r gammel. Gift med med Abel Kathrine Holm 1707-1772.