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May 11 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed, in Amsterdam, Northern Netherlands. Jun 6 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles in Chicago. Jun 9 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, Rhode Island.
Events. January–March. January 10 – Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor of India, makes a triumphant return to Delhi 15 years after having been forced to flee. [1] January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark. February 12.
Events. 24 March – Royal Marriages Act 1772 requires the monarch's consent for the marriage of all members of the royal family. [2] 28 May – Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal open for traffic throughout from a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal to the River Severn at Stourport.
Burning of the Gaspee, (June 10, 1772), in U.S. colonial history, act of open civil defiance of British authority when Rhode Islanders boarded and sank the revenue cutter Gaspee in Narragansett Bay. Headed by a leading merchant, John Brown, eight boatloads of armed reputable citizens overpowered.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Major Events. Jun 22 Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement. Jul 13 Captain James Cook begins his second voyage to the South Seas aboard HMS Resolution to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent)
29 ott 2009 · Causes of the Revolutionary War. American Revolution History. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the...
Partitions of Poland, (1772, 1793, 1795), three territorial divisions of Poland, perpetrated by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, by which Poland’s size was progressively reduced until, after the final partition, the state of Poland ceased to exist.
