Genealogy Mundorff » Mauritius Dewitte (1776-????)

Birthday March 7, 1776

• The temperature on March 7, 1776 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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
  • January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
  • August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
  • September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
  • November 16 » American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
  • December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1730 » Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1807)
• 1765 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography († 1833)
• 1785 » Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet († 1873)
• 1788 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist († 1878)
• 1792 » John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer († 1871)
• 1811 » Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author († 1875)