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Birthday August 26, 1770

• The temperature on August 26, 1770 was about 18.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen donker. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. 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 1770: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 5 » Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
  • April 19 » Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
  • April 20 » The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
  • April 29 » James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
  • July 5 » The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • November 14 » James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1740 » Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon († 1810)
• 1743 » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist († 1794)
• 1751 » Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop († 1825)
• 1775 » William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic († 1851)
• 1792 » Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay († 1857)
• 1797 » Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia († 1879)