Events in History
- Mar 5 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.
- Apr 19 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia. Writes in his log book that “what we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand.”
- Apr 28 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia
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- May 16 Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
- Jul 19 Founding Father of the United States John Dickinson (37) weds land and estate owner Mary Norris (30) in a civil ceremony
- Sep 9 Founding Father of America Robert R. Livingston (23) weds John Steven's daughter Mary Stevens
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