Genealogy Van de Cnocke » Anna Catharina Borms (1781-????)

Birthday November 22, 1781

• The temperature on November 22, 1781 was about 6.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: regen geheel 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 1781: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
  • February 18 » Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
  • August 24 » American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
  • September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
  • September 8 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
  • September 28 » American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1744 » Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States († 1818)
• 1780 » Conradin Kreutzer, German composer († 1849)
• 1780 » José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico († 1834)
• 1787 » Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar († 1823)
• 1808 » Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group († 1892)
• 1814 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California († 1893)