Staley ancestry » Anton Alflens (1782-????)

Birthday July 7, 1782

• The temperature on July 7, 1782 was about 16.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. 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 1782: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 7 » The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
  • January 15 » Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
  • February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
  • March 16 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
  • August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
  • September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom († 1834)
• 1766 » Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general († 1815)
• 1831 » Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer († 1914)
• 1833 » Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator († 1898)
• 1843 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
• 1846 » Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author († 1916)