The Counting Game

[DarthPorg36]

1761 AD
May 4 – The first multiple death tornado in the 13 American colonies strikes Charleston, South Carolina, killing eight people and sinking five ships in harbor.
June 6 – (May 26 old style); A transit of Venus occurs, and is observed from 120 locations around the Earth. In his observations by telescope at St. 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.
September 19 – Slavery in Portugal is abolished.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

If you make $17.62 an hour, working 40 hours a week, you will make $35,240 annually. This is enough for a one room apartment in Chicago.

[Jamiet99uk]

If you make £17.63 an hour, working 40 hours a week, you will make £36,670 annually. This is enough to pay the mortgage on a two-bedroom terraced house in County Durham.

[damo666]

If you make £17.63 an hour, working 40 hours a week, you will make £36,670 annually. This is enough to pay the mortgage on a two-bedroom terraced house in County Durham.

That's enough buy the place full stop.....

....and 1764 is, of course, the square of the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything and as such is a VERY IMPORTANT NUMBER INDEED.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

1765 is the answer to the much asked problem of: what is 353 times 5? Both of those numbers are prime.


$1765 is the price of one ambulance ride here in the good ol US. Better take an Uber!

[Hanging Rook]

§1766 BGB the Section in the German civil code that specifies the legal relationship between an adoptee or their offspring and the adopter if they become married to each other.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

In 1767, to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

[Ferdack]

The fifth of the Townshend Acts, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, was passed in 1768. In response to the Townshend Acts, John Dickinson penned his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania essays.

[DarthPorg36]

1769 AD
May 9 – France conquers Corsica.
June 3 – A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in historical times. The transit is viewed by King George III of Great Britain, at the Kew Observatory.
August 15 – Napoleon Bonaparte is born
October 7 – James Cook lands in New Zealand, at Poverty Bay.

[Ferdack]

Boston Massacre: on the evening of March 5, 1770, a dispute between British soldiers and Bostonians eventually drew a crowd of several hundred, shouting insults and throwing things, to which the soldiers responded by firing into the crowd, killing five.

[Hanging Rook]

1661 can be written forwards and backwards the same. It is the last one that is able to do so for 110 more numbers

And here we are

[DarthPorg36]

1772 AD - Mounting grievances with the British crown result in:

American patriots, led by Abraham Whipple, attacking and burning the British customs schooner HMS Gaspee off of Rhode Island.

Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren forming the first Committee of Correspondence.

[Ferdack]

Dec 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party

[DarthPorg36]

1774 AD
March 31 – Intolerable Acts: The British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston, Massachusetts, as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

June 2 - Intolerable Acts: A new Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide better housing for British soldiers upon demand, is passed.

September 1 – Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, orders British soldiers to remove gunpowder from a magazine, causing Patriots to prepare for war.

September 5 – The First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

October 21 – The word Liberty is first displayed on a flag raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts, in defiance of British rule in Colonial America

[Ferdack]

1775

March 23 – Patrick Henry delivers his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech after the Virginia House of Burgesses was disbanded by the Royal Governor.

April 18 – Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.

April 19 – Battles of Lexington and Concord, the American Revolutionary War begins.

[DarthPorg36]

1776 AD
January 24 - Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
March 17 – Threatened by Patriot cannons on Dorchester Heights, the British evacuate Boston, ending the 11‑month Siege of Boston.
May 4 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.
June 11 – The Continental Congress appoints a Committee of Five to draft a Declaration of Independence.

July 4 - The Continental Congress ratifies the declaration by the United States of its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. The United States is officially born.

August 15 - The first Hessian troops land on Staten Island, to join British forces.
September 7 – World's first submarine attack: The American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle, in New York Harbor.
September 16 – Battle of Harlem Heights: The Continental Army under Washington is victorious against the British on Manhattan.
November 20 – Battle of Fort Lee: The invasion of New Jersey, by British and Hessian forces, leads to the subsequent general retreat of the American Continental Army.
December 26 – Battle of Trenton: Washington's troops surprise the 1,500 Hessian troops under the command of Col. Johann Rall at 8 a.m. outside Trenton and score a victory, taking 948 prisoners while suffering only five wounded.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

1777: The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress. (Hint: this is related to the US)

[Ferdack]

1778

South Carolina and New Jersey become the first two states to ratify the Articles of Confederation, on Feb 5 and Nov 26, respectively.

Nov 14: Johann Nepomuk Hummel is born. He studied with Mozart for two years as a boy, and his teacher's influence was always present in his own music. Hummel's style influenced the Romantic-era piano concerto, and some passages in his music can be easily mistaken for Chopin, who admired his work and took inspiration from him.

[DarthPorg36]

1779 AD

February 14 – Captain James Cook is killed on the Sandwich Islands, on his third voyage.

June 16 – In support of France, Spain declares war on Britain, during the American Revolution

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1780 In Ireland, Lady Berry, who is sentenced to death for the murder of her son, is released when she agrees to become an executioner (this was a hell of a deal!)