Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Marie Angélique Perreault (1775-????)

Birthday July 27, 1775

• The temperature on July 27, 1775 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • May 20 » The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
  • July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
  • October 27 » King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1768 » Charlotte Corday, French assassin of Jean-Paul Marat († 1793)
• 1768 » Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter († 1839)
• 1773 » Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist and politician († 1844)
• 1777 » Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general († 1853)
• 1777 » Thomas Campbell, Scottish-French poet and academic († 1844)
• 1781 » Mauro Giuliani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1828)