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1715
Nov 10
1715 • 1715 Treasure Fleet: A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under General Don Juan Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, nine of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida (some centuries later, treasure salvage is found from these wrecks). |
1738
Nov 10
Age: 23y
marriageAnna Catherina Lauck Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Host Tulpenhocken Church 3 Sources ⇓ |
1738 • Black Forest clockmaker Franz Ketterer produces one of the earliest cuckoo clocks. |
1747
Age: 31y
birth of childJacob Winger Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1747 • October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route. |
1796
Dec 16
Age: 81y
1796 • The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under the terms of the Jay Treaty. |