John and Margrietje deKraai Fennema family » Lydia Churchill (1776-1875)

Birthday July 14, 1776

• The temperature on July 14, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. 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
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • June 15 » Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
  • August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
  • October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
  • December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
  • December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.

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)