De Roller Stamboom » Louise Charlotte Elisabeth Winckelmann (1775-????)

Birthday July 14, 1775

• The temperature on July 14, 1775 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen 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
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • 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.
  • August 23 » American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
  • October 13 » The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
  • November 10 » The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
  • December 3 » USSAlfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1743 » Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician († 1816)
• 1755 » Michel de Beaupuy, French general († 1796)
• 1785 » Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist, playwright, and diplomat († 1851)
• 1795 » Eleanor Anne Porden, British Romantic poet; wife of the explorer, John Franklin († 1825)
• 1801 » Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist († 1858)
• 1816 » Arthur de Gobineau, French author and diplomat († 1882)