Family tree Dries » Job de Waard (1777-????)

Birthday June 30, 1777

• The temperature on June 30, 1777 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. 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 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.
  • April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
  • July 31 » The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
  • October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
  • December 16 » Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1]
  • December 19 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1755 » Paul Barras, French soldier and politician († 1829)
• 1789 » Horace Vernet, French painter and academic († 1863)
• 1791 » Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist († 1841)
• 1803 » Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, playwright, and physician († 1849)
• 1807 » Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author, poet, and playwright (d.1887)
• 1817 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer († 1911)