Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » Isaac Yeakel Schultz (1778-????)

Birthday March 4, 1778

• The temperature on March 4, 1778 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
  • July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
  • July 28 » Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
  • August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1769 » Muhammad Ali, Ottoman military leader and pasha († 1849)
• 1770 » Joseph Jacotot, French philosopher and academic († 1840)
• 1778 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander († 1803)
• 1781 » Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist († 1869)
• 1782 » Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss philosopher, author, and academic († 1830)
• 1792 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher († 1886)