Mar 27 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine

Mar 27 Battle at Emmerich British army floats around France the Rhine

Aug 27 Colonel John Bradstreet 1714-1774 captures Fort Frontenac and its rich storehouses, as well as nine armed vessels with 100 guns, the total French naval force on Lake Ontario; British have only two wounded and not a single man killed

Aug 29 First indian reservation established

Sep 12 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog

Sep 29 The birth of Horatio Nelson, English admiral killed at Trafalgar

Apr 17 Francis Williams, first US black college graduate, publishes poems

Apr 28 The birth of James Monroe, American president

Nov 25 Britain captures Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)

Dec 25 Halley's comet first sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return

Jul 05 Lake George New York, General James Abercromby leaves the ruins of Fort William Henry at the head of Lake George to attack the French at Fort Carillon; army of 6,000 British regulars, and almost 9000 provincials from New England, New York and New Jersey, embarks in hundreds of batteaux and whale boats.

Jul 24 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess

Jan 11 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia