April 13 – America's first recorded riot, the '
Doctors' Mob', begins. Residents of Manhattan are angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors to dissect. The rioting is suppressed on
April 15.
July 13 – A
hailstorm sweeps across France and the
Dutch Republic, with hailstones 'as big as quart bottles' that take 'three days to melt'; immense damage is done.[4]
November 8 – Voting takes place in the 11 states that have ratified the United States Constitution for the first U.S. Senators; in Virginia, Richard Henry Lee and William Grayson, both anti-federalists, receive the highest number of votes in the Virginia Senate.[7]
November 20 – In the United Kingdom, the Houses of Parliament are given the first formal report by
Prime Minister Pitt of the mental illness of King George III. Parliament adjourns for two weeks, to await the results of examinations by royal physicians.[8]
November 25 – Fifty consecutive days of temperatures below freezing strike
France, a record that will be unbroken more than 200 years later.[9]
December 6 –
Russo-Turkish War (1787–92): The Ottoman fortress of
Özi falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege, and a murderous storm with a temperature of −23 °C (−9 °F).
^
abHarper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
^William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (George Cochran Publishing, 1823) p653
^Frank Fletcher Stephens, The Transitional Period, 1788–1789, in the Government of the United States (University of Missouri Press, 1909) pp17-18
^Robert Huish, Memoirs of George the Fourth: Descriptive of the Most Interesting Scenes of His Private and Public Life, and the Important Events of His Memorable Reign (Thomas Kelly Publishers, 1830) p195
^David Andress, The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2015)
April 13 – America's first recorded riot, the '
Doctors' Mob', begins. Residents of Manhattan are angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors to dissect. The rioting is suppressed on
April 15.
July 13 – A
hailstorm sweeps across France and the
Dutch Republic, with hailstones 'as big as quart bottles' that take 'three days to melt'; immense damage is done.[4]
November 8 – Voting takes place in the 11 states that have ratified the United States Constitution for the first U.S. Senators; in Virginia, Richard Henry Lee and William Grayson, both anti-federalists, receive the highest number of votes in the Virginia Senate.[7]
November 20 – In the United Kingdom, the Houses of Parliament are given the first formal report by
Prime Minister Pitt of the mental illness of King George III. Parliament adjourns for two weeks, to await the results of examinations by royal physicians.[8]
November 25 – Fifty consecutive days of temperatures below freezing strike
France, a record that will be unbroken more than 200 years later.[9]
December 6 –
Russo-Turkish War (1787–92): The Ottoman fortress of
Özi falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege, and a murderous storm with a temperature of −23 °C (−9 °F).
^
abHarper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
^William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (George Cochran Publishing, 1823) p653
^Frank Fletcher Stephens, The Transitional Period, 1788–1789, in the Government of the United States (University of Missouri Press, 1909) pp17-18
^Robert Huish, Memoirs of George the Fourth: Descriptive of the Most Interesting Scenes of His Private and Public Life, and the Important Events of His Memorable Reign (Thomas Kelly Publishers, 1830) p195
^David Andress, The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2015)