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Birthday December 10, 1775

• The temperature on December 10, 1775 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. 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 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.
  • March 23 » American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
  • April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  • July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
  • 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 27 » King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1751 » George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist († 1813)
• 1776 » Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este († 1848)
• 1783 » María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright († 1873)
• 1787 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf († 1851)
• 1804 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic († 1851)
• 1805 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator († 1879)