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Birthday September 10, 1775

• The temperature on September 10, 1775 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
  • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
  • July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
  • July 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
  • December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • December 9 » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1753 » John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall († 1837)
• 1758 » Hannah Webster Foster, American author († 1840)
• 1786 » Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico († 1854)
• 1786 » William Mason, American surgeon and politician († 1860)
• 1788 » Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author († 1868)
• 1793 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist († 1834)