May 16 The Dauphin of France and Marie Antoinette get married

May 16 Marie Antoinette (age 14) marries the future King Louis VI of France (age 15)

May 01 Forby Sutherland is laid to rest at Botany Bay. He is the first European to be buried in New South Wales.

Jan 01 Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"

Jan 13 De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris

Jan 19 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)

Apr 09 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)

Apr 12 Townsend Acts repealed

Apr 20 Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales

Apr 07 The birth of William Wordsworth, English Poet

Apr 09 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)

Nov 25 Explorer Samuel Hearne returns to Prince of Wales fort on Hudson Bay after failing to reach the Coppermine River

Jun 11 Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef

Jun 03 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif

Jun 28 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia

Dec 17 The birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer

Dec 17 Ludwig Van Beethoven was born on Dec. 16, 1770 (baptized on Dec. 17, 1770)

Dec 16 Ludwig Van Beethoven was born on Dec. 16, 1770 (baptized on Dec. 17, 1770)

Jul 07 Russian fleet, with British sailors as officers, defeats Turkish navy at Tchesme, Turkey.

Mar 05 The Boston Massacre takes place when British soldiers kill five colonists who had been taunting them.