Family tree De Backer - Evers » Jan Baptiste Bontinck (1775-????)

Birthday December 22, 1775

• The temperature on December 22, 1775 was about 5.0 °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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • April 14 » The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
  • April 18 » American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
  • April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
  • June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
  • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1765 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic († 1825)
• 1799 » Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist († 1864)
• 1805 » John Obadiah Westwood, English entomologist and archaeologist († 1893)
• 1807 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic († 1873)
• 1819 » Franz Abt, German composer and conductor († 1870)
• 1819 » Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic († 1892)