February 22 – Expecting an attack by Portuguese-speaking militias in theViceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, the indigenousGuarani people residing in theMisiones Orientales stage an attack on a small Brazilian Portuguese settlement on theRio Pardo in what is now the Brazilian state ofRio Grande do Sul. The attack by 300 Guarani soldiers from the missions at San Luis, San Lorenzo and San Juan Bautista is repelled with a loss of 30 Guarani and is the opening of theGuarani War[1]
February 25 –Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that are reportedly disembarking on the coasts of Petén (modern-dayBelize), and sacking the nearby towns.[2]
July 10 – TheAlbany Plan of Union is given official approval by the delegates from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, with Connecticut opposing. The plan approved at the meeting inAlbany, New York is based onBenjamin Franklin's suggestions of "a general union of the British colonies on the continent" for a common defense policy. As amended at the assembly, the proposed union calls for the British Parliament to approve the arrangement, which would encompass all of the British North American colonies except forGeorgia andNova Scotia. The plan, to be considered by the individual colonies for ratification, provides for an inter-colonial legislature (the Grand Council) composed of between two and seven representatives for each colony, depending on population. It also provides for a "President General" who can veto Grand Council legislation, a common defense budget with colonies contributing proportionately to their representation, and an inter-colonial army whose officers would be selected by the Grand Council.[4]
August 17 – Pennsylvania becomes the first of the British colonies to address Benjamin Franklin'sAlbany Plan for an inter-colonial union. With Franklin absent fromPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania's House of Representatives votes against to not consider the Plan at all, and to not refer it to the next legislative session for debate.[4]
August 19 – Lieutenant ColonelGeorge Washington is forced to confront his firstmutiny as 25 members of his Virginia militia refuse to obey orders from their officers. Washington, who is attending church services at the time, quickly suppresses the rebellion and the mutineers are imprisoned before more join.[8]
August 30 –New Hampshire settlersSusannah Willard Johnson and her family are taken hostage by theAbenaki Indians during an attack nearCharlestown. Nine months pregnant at the time of their capture, Johnson gives birth two days later to a child, whom she names Elizabeth Captive Johnson. For the next two years, the family is held for ransom in Canada before she is released. In 1796, she will recount the story in a popular memoir, A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson.[9]
September 2 – A powerfulearthquake strikesConstantinople shortly after 9 o'clock in the evening. A Scottish physician, Mordach Mackenzie, reports in a letter that the tremor damaged or destroyed numerous buildings and comments, "Some say there were 2000 people destroyed by this calamity, in the town and suburbs; some 900; and others reduce them to 60, who, by what I have seen, are nearer the truth."[10]
October 24 –China'sQianlong Emperor reverses a longstanding policy that barred Chinese subjects from ever returning to China if they remained out of the country for more than three years.[12]
October 31 – What will becomeColumbia University is chartered as "a College in the Province of New York... in the City of New York in America... named King's College", with the charter submitted by New York's colonial governor,James De Lancey.[5]
November 28 – Denmark establishes theRenteskirverkontor, an office within the Chamber of Finance, to oversee the colonial affairs of theDanish West Indies (Dansk Vestindien).[13] Peder Mariager, who had been a minor official of the Danish West Indies Company, becomes the first administrator. The colony, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix later is purchased by the United States from Denmark and is now theU.S. Virgin Islands.
December 26 – Massachusetts becomes the third colony (after Pennsylvania and Connecticut) to reject theAlbany Plan for an inter-colonial union, voting 48 to 31 to postpone consideration of the union question indefinitely.[4]
SurveyorWilliam Churton lays out what will become the seat ofOrange County,North Carolina. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in1759, and finallyHillsborough in1766.
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^abRobert McCaughey,Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University (Columbia University Press, 2003) p21
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^Philip A. Kuhn,Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) p94
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^Kaveh Farrokh,Iran at War: 1500-1988 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011)
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