Dreyer Tree » Hermanus Bernhardus Pieters (1776-????)

Birthday November 29, 1776

• The temperature on November 29, 1776 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. 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
  • February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
  • March 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
  • May 1 » Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Upper Bavaria, by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
  • September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
  • September 15 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
  • December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Jemima Wilkinson, American evangelist († 1819)
• 1781 » Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher († 1865)
• 1797 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer († 1848)
• 1798 » Alexander Brullov, Russian painter and architect, designed the Pulkovo Observatory († 1877)
• 1799 » Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and academic († 1888)
• 1802 » Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and author († 1827)