Family tree Lars Werner » Jean SOLTNER (1775-????)

Birthday March 7, 1775

• The temperature on March 7, 1775 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
  • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
  • July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
  • September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
  • October 27 » King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • November 13 » American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1730 » Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1807)
• 1765 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography († 1833)
• 1785 » Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet († 1873)
• 1788 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist († 1878)
• 1792 » John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer († 1871)
• 1811 » Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author († 1875)