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Birthday September 7, 1775

• The temperature on September 7, 1775 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 18 » American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
  • April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
  • July 26 » The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
  • September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1777 » Heinrich Stölzel, German horn player and composer († 1844)
• 1791 » Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Italian poet and author († 1863)
• 1795 » John William Polidori, English physician and author († 1821)
• 1801 » Sarel Cilliers, South African preacher and activist (d.1871)
• 1803 » William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (d.1845)
• 1807 » Henry Sewell, English lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1879)