Arbre Chatelain » Jean Nicolas DEBLAYE (1777-????)

Birthday July 9, 1777

• The temperature on July 9, 1777 was about 16.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. 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 15 » American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
  • April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
  • September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine: The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
  • September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
  • October 6 » American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
  • 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

• 1753 » William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland († 1825)
• 1764 » Ann Ward, English author and poet († 1823)
• 1775 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright († 1818)
• 1800 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist († 1885)
• 1808 » Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and colonel († 1887)
• 1819 » Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine († 1867)