April 4 – A severe epidemic ofinfluenza breaks out inLondon and "practically the entire population of the city" is afflicted; particularly contagious to pregnant women, the disease causes an unusual number of miscarriages and premature births.[4]
April 14 –Thomas Boone is transferred south to become the Royal Governor of South Carolina after proving to be unable to work with the local assembly as the Royal Governor of New Jersey.[5]
May 4 – The first multiple death tornado in the 13 American colonies strikesCharleston, South Carolina, killing eight people and sinking five ships in harbor.[6]
June 6 – (May 26 old style); Atransit of Venus occurs, and is observed from 120 locations around the Earth. In his observations by telescope atSt. Petersburg,Mikhail Lomonosov notes a ring of light around the planet's silhouette as it begins the transit, and becomes the first astronomer to discover that the planet Venus has an atmosphere.[8]
August 6 – TheParlement of Paris votes to close all colleges, associations and seminaries associated with theJesuit Order, following a long campaign by Louis-Adrien Le Paige.[10]
August 11 – Two years after his marriage toMartha Custis and his move toMount Vernon, American military officer and politicianGeorge Washington advertises a reward in theMaryland Gazette for the capture of four fugitive slaves who ran away from him: Cupid, Peros, Jack and Neptune, claiming in the gazette that they had escaped "without the least suspicion, provocation, or difference with anybody".[11]
October 30 – ColonelHenry Bouquet issues the first proclamation against Anglo-American settlement on Indian lands in America.[16]
November 7 – TheNew London Harbor Light is first lit to guide ships into the Connecticut harbor; the lighthouse, only the fourth to be built has been in continuous operation for more than 250 years.
November 26 – A 500-man force from the Army ofSpain brings the revolt of Mexico'sMaya population to an end, capturing theYucatan village of Cisteil, killing about 500 of the 2,500 Mayan defenders and losing 40 of their own.[18] The Spaniards arrest 254 people, includingJacinto Canek, who had proclaimed himself as King Canek Montezuma of the Mayas. Canek and eight other rebellion leaders are executed less than three weeks later.
The music for "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman" ("Ah, would I tell you Mom?") is first published inFrance by a Monsieur Bouin in his bookLes Amusements d'une Heure et Demy; in 1806, English poetJane Taylor publishes her poem,The Star, whose words fit the rhythm of the tune and become the children's songTwinkle Twinkle Little Star.[19]
^Herbert J. Redman,Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763 (McFarland, 2015) p422
^"Relation of Influenza to Pregnancy and Labor", by Dr. P. Brooke Bland, inThe American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (February 1919) pp185-186
^"Thomas Boone", by Larry R. Gerlach, inThe Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays, ed. by Michael J. Birkner, et al. (Rutgers University Press, 2014) p87
^T. P. Grazulis,The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003) p217
^Hargreaves, Matthew.Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. p.174
^Govert Schilling,Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries (Springer, 2011) p41
^ William R. Nester,The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775 (Greenwood, 2000) p213
^William R. Reynolds, Jr.,The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries (McFarland, 2015) p96
^Stan Hoig,The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire (University of Arkansas Press, 1998) p43
^Thomas Carlyle,On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (University of California Press, 1993) p304
^abAlfred P. James,The Ohio Company: Its Inner History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959) p118
^"Cherokee War", by John C. Frederiksen, inThe Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History, ed. by Spencer Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2011) p157
^Micheal Clodfelter,Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 (McFarland, 2017) p139
^Stokes, Richard (2016).The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden. Penguin. p. xiiv.
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