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Birthday December 10, 1777

• The temperature on December 10, 1777 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
  • June 14 » The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
  • July 7 » American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
  • August 6 » American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
  • August 22 » British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
  • September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1751 » George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist († 1813)
• 1776 » Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este († 1848)
• 1783 » María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright († 1873)
• 1787 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf († 1851)
• 1804 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic († 1851)
• 1805 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator († 1879)