geboren: 11 maa 1776; gedoopt: 17 maa 1776; kind: Jan; vader: Maarten Bal; moeder: Elizabeth Hendriksche Holland; opmerkingen: getuigen Jan Bal en Jannetje Pieters van Steen.; scannr: 312.
January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
November 16 » American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
November 20 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
Christening day March 17, 1776
The temperature on March 17, 1776 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
October 11 » American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
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