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Birthday July 14, 1776

• The temperature on July 14, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
  • July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
  • September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
  • October 11 » American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1743 » Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician († 1816)
• 1755 » Michel de Beaupuy, French general († 1796)
• 1785 » Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist, playwright, and diplomat († 1851)
• 1795 » Eleanor Anne Porden, British Romantic poet; wife of the explorer, John Franklin († 1825)
• 1801 » Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist († 1858)
• 1816 » Arthur de Gobineau, French author and diplomat († 1882)