geboren: 20 aug 1778; gedoopt: 22 aug 1778; kind: Jacobus; vader: Pieter Dignusz van Boven; moeder: Willemina Adriaansd Snoep van Kloetingen; opmerkingen: getuigen Francina van de Gugte.; scannr: 316.
July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
August 21 » American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
August 26 » The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
November 26 » In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
Christening day August 22, 1778
The temperature on August 22, 1778 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
February 9 » Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
July 10 » American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
August 26 » The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
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