Person report

★31 Jan 1747
The London Lock Hospital, the first clinic specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases, opened.

★11 Sep 1758
Seven Years' War: France repelled an invasion attempt by the British in the Battle of Saint Cast.

★12 Jun 1775
Governor Thomas Gage of the Province of Massachusetts Bay offered a general pardon to colonists who remained loyal to Britain.

★04 Jul 1776
In Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing that the thirteen American colonies were no longer a part of the British Empire.

★13 May 1779
Russian and French mediators negotiated the Treaty of Teschen to end the War of the Bavarian Succession.

★10 Jun 1782
King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then.

★15 Sep 1795
French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.

★29 Nov 1807
Maria I of Portugal, the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 people departed Lisbon for the colony of Brazil just days before Napoleonic forces invaded.

★13 Oct 1812
War of 1812: British troops and Mohawk warriors repelled an American invasion from across the Niagara River at the Battle of Queenston Heights near Queenston, Ontario.

★05 Aug 1816
Sir John Barrow, Secretary of the Admiralty, rejected a proposal to use Francis Ronalds's electrical telegraph, deeming it "wholly unnecessary".

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