Family tree Jacobs-Meisters » Maria Kettelslegers (1780-????)

Birthday March 15, 1780

• The temperature on March 15, 1780 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
  • May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
  • May 13 » The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
  • May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
  • September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
  • December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

Source: Wikipedia

• 1754 » Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist († 1842)
• 1767 » Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States († 1845)
• 1779 » William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1848)
• 1790 » Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician and academic († 1861)
• 1791 » Charles Knight, English author and publisher († 1873)
• 1809 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian historian and politician, 1st President of Liberia († 1876)