Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Maria Susanna Best (1776-????)

Birthday September 18, 1776

• The temperature on September 18, 1776 was about 14.0 °C. There was 136 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
  • March 9 » The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
  • May 1 » Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Upper Bavaria, by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
  • May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
  • July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
  • September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1750 » Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and playwright († 1791)
• 1752 » Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist († 1833)
• 1765 » Pope Gregory XVI († 1846)
• 1779 » Joseph Story, American lawyer, jurist, and politician († 1845)
• 1786 » Christian VIII of Denmark († 1848)
• 1786 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and author († 1862)