Eijsermans family tree » Maria Judoca Mariman (1775-????)

Birthday February 1, 1775

• The temperature on February 1, 1775 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest by 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
  • July 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
  • August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
  • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
  • December 31 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1761 » Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, South African-French mycologist and academic († 1836)
• 1763 » Thomas Campbell, Irish minister and theologian († 1854)
• 1796 » Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss minister, poet, and educator († 1865)
• 1801 » Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher († 1881)
• 1820 » George Hendric Houghton, American clergyman and theologian († 1897)
• 1836 » Emil Hartmann, Danish organist and composer († 1898)