geboren: 6 dec 1776; gedoopt: 8 dec 1776; kind: Maatje; vader: Jan Corn[elisz] Engelaar; moeder: Willemijna Corn[elisdr] van den Boomgaart; opmerkingen: get Jacobus Corn[elisz] van den Boomgaart en Adriana Geeraardze Breker.; scannr: 313.
January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
March 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
Christening day December 8, 1776
The temperature on December 8, 1776 was about -1.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
March 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
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.
August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
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