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Birthday November 15, 1780

• The temperature on November 15, 1780 was about 10.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
  • May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
  • May 13 » The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
  • October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
  • October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
  • November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

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• 1746 » Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer († 1809)
• 1757 » Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic († 1830)
• 1776 » José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author († 1827)
• 1784 » Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg († 1860)
• 1791 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician († 1869)
• 1793 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic († 1880)