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Birthday December 25, 1777

• The temperature on December 25, 1777 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
  • January 3 » American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
  • April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
  • October 4 » American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
  • November 29 » San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
  • December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1745 » Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor († 1799)
• 1757 » Benjamin Pierce, American general and politician, 17th Governor of New Hampshire († 1839)
• 1766 » Christmas Evans, Welsh Nonconformist preacher († 1838)
• 1771 » Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and poet († 1855)
• 1776 » Sydney, Lady Morgan, Irish author and poet († 1859)
• 1810 » L. L. Langstroth, American apiarist, clergyman and teacher († 1895)