Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelis van Dulmen (1777-????)

Birthday January 19, 1777

• The temperature on January 19, 1777 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: helder. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
  • April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
  • July 6 » American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
  • July 31 » The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
  • October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
  • December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » James Morris III, American captain († 1820)
• 1757 » Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf († 1831)
• 1788 » Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician († 1874)
• 1790 » Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic († 1855)
• 1798 » Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher († 1857)
• 1807 » Robert E. Lee, American general and academic († 1870)