Broersma Family Tree » Baukjen Jans (1777-1778)

Christening day December 7, 1777

• The temperature on December 7, 1777 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer 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.
  • April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
  • June 13 » American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
  • June 14 » The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
  • September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
  • December 16 » Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1]

Day of death April 10, 1778

• The temperature on April 10, 1778 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 6 » American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
  • February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
  • September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
  • November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
  • December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1756 » Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)
• 1760 » Jean Lebeuf, French historian and author (b. 1687)
• 1786 » John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1723)
• 1806 » Horatio Gates, English-American general (b. 1727)
• 1813 » Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
• 1823 » Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (b. 1757)