Sickler Family Tree » Joel Hitchcock (1778-????)

Birthday November 19, 1778

• The temperature on November 19, 1778 was about 8.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • 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.
  • February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
  • July 28 » Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
  • September 19 » The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » George Rogers Clark, American general († 1818)
• 1770 » Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor and academic († 1844)
• 1802 » Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician († 1866)
• 1805 » Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal († 1894)
• 1808 » Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician († 1881)
• 1812 » Karl Schwarz, German theologian and politician († 1885)