Schaeffer-Massung Family Tree » Anna THILL TILL (1784-????)

Birthday December 29, 1784

• The temperature on December 29, 1784 was about -7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: 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 1784: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 14 » American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
  • April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
  • June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
  • August 17 » Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.
  • August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
  • October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1766 » Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric († 1843)
• 1796 » Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist († 1877)
• 1800 » Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer († 1860)
• 1808 » Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States († 1875)
• 1809 » William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1898)
• 1816 » Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist († 1895)