Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Lucia Leenhouwers (1770-????)

Birthday August 28, 1770

• The temperature on August 28, 1770 was about 16.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: regen omtrent 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 1770: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 5 » Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
  • April 20 » The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
  • April 29 » James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
  • June 11 » British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
  • June 19 » New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg writes: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reign. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770."
  • July 1 » Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000km; 1,360,000mi).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1728 » John Stark, American general († 1822)
• 1739 » Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer († 1818)
• 1749 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat († 1832)
• 1774 » Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition († 1821)
• 1801 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher († 1877)
• 1814 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author († 1873)