Rois Europe » Marie Gillier (1779-????)

Birthday January 23, 1779

• The temperature on January 23, 1779 was about 0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1779: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
  • May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
  • June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
  • August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1832)
• 1780 » Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general († 1827)
• 1783 » Stendhal, French novelist († 1842)
• 1786 » Auguste de Montferrand, French-Russian architect, designed Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Alexander Column († 1858)
• 1799 » Alois Negrelli, Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire († 1858)
• 1809 » Surendra Sai, Indian activist († 1884)