geboren: 14 jan 1775; gedoopt: 15 jan 1775; kind: Willem; vader: Sijmon [Fransz] Denijs; moeder: Barbara [Adriaensdr] Mankx; opmerkingen: getuigen Jacob Manks en Pieternella van Dee.; scannr: 311.
The temperature on January 14, 1775 was about 6.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
June 14 » American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
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.
December 9 » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
December 31 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
Christening day January 15, 1775
The temperature on January 15, 1775 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
May 31 » American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
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 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
August 23 » American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
December 3 » USSAlfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
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