Family tree Gob » Anne Catherine MAURY (1778-????)

Birthday September 16, 1778

• The temperature on September 16, 1778 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
  • February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
  • July 28 » Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
  • December 15 » American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
  • December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1745 » Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal († 1813)
• 1777 » Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier († 1836)
• 1782 » Daoguang Emperor of China († 1850)
• 1823 » Francis Parkman, American historian and author († 1893)
• 1823 » Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist († 1895)
• 1827 » Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and paleontologist († 1908)