Dreyer Tree » Jan Godfried Jacob Gräbe (1776-????)

Birthday March 10, 1776

• The temperature on March 10, 1776 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
  • 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).
  • October 11 » American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
  • December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
  • December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1769 » Joseph Williamson, English businessman and philanthropist († 1840)
• 1772 » Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic († 1829)
• 1777 » Louis Hersent, French painter († 1860)
• 1787 » Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain († 1862)
• 1787 » William Etty, English painter and academic († 1849)
• 1788 » Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German author, poet, playwright, and critic († 1857)