Person report

★20 Nov 1739
War of Jenkins' Ear: A British naval force captured the settlement of Portobello in the Spanish Main.

★18 Oct 1775
American Revolutionary War: In an act of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the war, the Royal Navy destroyed what is now Portland, Maine.

★03 Mar 1776
American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the Bahamas.

★15 Sep 1776
American Revolutionary War: The British made an unopposed amphibious landing at Kips Bay on Manhattan, the American defenders having fled due to artillery fire.

★14 Jun 1777
The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.

★19 Oct 1781
American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.

★16 Mar 1782
American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán off the coast of what is now Honduras.

★08 Jun 1783
Laki, a volcanic fissure in Iceland, began an eight-month eruption, triggering a major famine and causing massive fluoride poisoning.

★24 Oct 1789
The Brabant Revolution, sometimes considered as the first expression of Belgian nationalism, began with the invasion of the Austrian Netherlands by an émigré army from the Dutch Republic.

★20 Aug 1794
American troops defeated the Northwestern Confederacy, a Native American alliance, at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the decisive battle of the Northwest Indian War.

Historical data by Wikipedia Contributors CC BY-SA 3.0.