Family tree De Backer - Evers » Jean Joseph Fabry (1780-????)

Birthday February 17, 1780

• The temperature on February 17, 1780 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
  • May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
  • May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
  • October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
  • November 5 » French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
  • December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German author and playwright († 1831)
• 1754 » Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer († 1803)
• 1758 » John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian († 1826)
• 1781 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope († 1826)
• 1796 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist († 1866)
• 1817 » Édouard Thilges, Luxembourgian jurist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1904)