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
  • May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • August 27 » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
  • September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
  • September 15 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
  • September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
  • December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.

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)