Family tree Daneels » Jean François SANDRART (1776-????)

Birthday October 14, 1776

• The temperature on October 14, 1776 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
  • June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
  • July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
  • September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
  • December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1733 » François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal († 1798)
• 1784 » Ferdinand VII of Spain († 1833)
• 1791 » Friedrich Parrot, Baltic German naturalist († 1841)
• 1801 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope († 1883)
• 1806 » Preston King, American lawyer and politician († 1865)
• 1824 » Adolphe Monticelli, French painter († 1886)