Dreyer Tree » Daniel Jacobus Robberts (1776-????)

Birthday February 21, 1776

• The temperature on February 21, 1776 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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
  • March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
  • 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.
  • 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 10 » American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1783 » Catharina of Württemberg († 1835)
• 1788 » Francis Ronalds, British scientist, inventor and engineer who was knighted for developing the first working electric telegraph († 1873)
• 1791 » Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer († 1857)
• 1794 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician, 8th President of Mexico († 1876)
• 1801 » John Henry Newman, English cardinal († 1890)
• 1817 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright († 1893)