Km&be » Marie Angelique Labelle (1778-1841)

Birthday September 8, 1778

• The temperature on September 8, 1778 was about 18.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: regen half bewolkt. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • February 6 » American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
  • July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
  • September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
  • November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
  • December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer, actor, and director († 1813)
• 1767 » August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic († 1845)
• 1774 » Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic († 1824)
• 1779 » Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan († 1808)
• 1783 » N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author († 1872)
• 1804 » Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic († 1875)