January 18 – This notice appears in the Quebec Gazette: "A mail for the upper counties, comprehending Niagara and Detroit, will be closed, at this office, on Monday, 30th instant, at four o'clock in the evening, to be forwarded, from Montreal, by the annual winter express, on Thursday, 2 February next."[citation needed]
July 21 – AmericanDavid McLane, being convicted of high treason, is hanged on a gibbet on the glacis of the fortifications at Quebec.[2]
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