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Birthday March 9, 1780

• The temperature on March 9, 1780 was about 7.0 °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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
  • April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
  • May 13 » The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
  • 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 10 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
  • November 5 » French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1749 » Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician († 1791)
• 1753 » Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general († 1800)
• 1758 » Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroanatomist and physiologist († 1828)
• 1763 » William Cobbett, English journalist and author († 1835)
• 1806 » Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist († 1872)
• 1814 » Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright († 1861)