Family tree De Backer - Evers » Marie Joseph Grandfils (1776-????)

Birthday June 9, 1776

• The temperature on June 9, 1776 was about 14.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
  • March 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
  • July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
  • July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
  • October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1732 » Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer († 1791)
• 1754 » Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, English general and politician, Governor of Barbados († 1815)
• 1768 » Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman († 1835)
• 1781 » George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway († 1848)
• 1810 » Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor († 1849)
• 1812 » Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic († 1910)