Arbre Chatelain » Jean Joseph VAUTRIN (1776-????)

Birthday March 13, 1776

• The temperature on March 13, 1776 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • April 7 » Captain John Barry and the USSLexington captures the Edward.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
  • July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
  • August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1763 » Guillaume Brune, French general and diplomat († 1815)
• 1764 » Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1845)
• 1770 » Daniel Lambert, English animal breeder († 1809)
• 1781 » Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German painter and architect, designed the Konzerthaus Berlin († 1841)
• 1798 » Abigail Fillmore, American wife of Millard Fillmore, 14th First Lady of the United States († 1853)
• 1800 » Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 212th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1858)