Database Van Broekhoven » Johanna de Jong (1776-????)

Birthday March 6, 1776

• The temperature on March 6, 1776 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
  • March 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • 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.
  • November 20 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
  • December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1761 » Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat († 1828)
• 1779 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, Swiss-French general († 1869)
• 1780 » Lucy Barnes, American writer († 1809)
• 1785 » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor († 1857)
• 1787 » Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer († 1826)
• 1806 » Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator († 1861)