Kramer Family Tree » Sara Christiana Andersdatter (1776-1776)

Birthday September 18, 1776

• The temperature on September 18, 1776 was about 14.0 °C. There was 136 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
  • 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.
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
  • November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1750 » Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and playwright († 1791)
• 1752 » Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist († 1833)
• 1765 » Pope Gregory XVI († 1846)
• 1779 » Joseph Story, American lawyer, jurist, and politician († 1845)
• 1786 » Christian VIII of Denmark († 1848)
• 1786 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and author († 1862)