Family tree J.H. de Jong » Joanna Koos (1776-????)

Birthday November 29, 1776

• The temperature on November 29, 1776 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. 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
  • May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
  • September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
  • November 16 » American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
  • November 20 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Jemima Wilkinson, American evangelist († 1819)
• 1781 » Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher († 1865)
• 1797 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer († 1848)
• 1798 » Alexander Brullov, Russian painter and architect, designed the Pulkovo Observatory († 1877)
• 1799 » Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and academic († 1888)
• 1802 » Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and author († 1827)