Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Marie-Charlotte Robillard (1775-1781)

Birthday December 23, 1775

• The temperature on December 23, 1775 was about 6.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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
  • February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
  • April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
  • June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
  • July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
  • September 25 » American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
  • December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1750 » Frederick Augustus I of Saxony († 1827)
• 1758 » Nathan Wilson, American soldier and politician († 1834)
• 1766 » Wilhelm Hisinger, Swedish physicist and chemist († 1852)
• 1777 » Alexander I of Russia († 1825)
• 1790 » Jean-François Champollion, French philologist, orientalist, and scholar († 1832)
• 1793 » Dost Mohammad Khan, emir of Afghanistan († 1863)