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.
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.
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.
November 16 » American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
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 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.
June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
August 27 » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
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