Généalogie de famille Decroos » Joanna Maria van MUYLDER (1776-????)

Birthday December 10, 1776

• The temperature on December 10, 1776 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. 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
  • January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
  • March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
  • 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.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1751 » George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist († 1813)
• 1776 » Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este († 1848)
• 1783 » María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright († 1873)
• 1787 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf († 1851)
• 1804 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic († 1851)
• 1805 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator († 1879)