geboren: 9 dec 1776; gedoopt: 15 dec 1776; kind: Jan; vader: Cornelis Pieterse Glerum; moeder: Catharina Geraardse van Waarde; opmerkingen: getuigen Fernandus Krijnse en Cornelia Leenderse de Coo.; scannr: 313.
January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
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.
Christening day December 15, 1776
The temperature on December 15, 1776 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
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).
September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
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