Dinteloord en omliggende gemeenten » Davidje de Bruijn (1780-????)

Birthday August 27, 1780

• The temperature on August 27, 1780 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
  • April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
  • May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
  • September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
  • October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
  • October 16 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1770 » Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and academic († 1831)
• 1785 » Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru († 1841)
• 1795 » Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician († 1885)
• 1803 » Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian († 1895)
• 1809 » Hannibal Hamlin, American publisher and politician, 15th Vice President of the United States († 1891)
• 1812 » Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary († 1869)