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Birthday June 16, 1776

• The temperature on June 16, 1776 was about 15.0 °C. There was 46 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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
  • March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
  • 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.
  • August 31 » William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
  • September 21 » Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
  • December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
  • December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1738 » Mary Katherine Goddard, American publisher († 1816)
• 1754 » Salawat Yulayev, Russian poet († 1800)
• 1792 » John Linnell, English painter and engraver († 1882)
• 1801 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist († 1868)
• 1806 » Edward Davy, English physician and chemist († 1885)
• 1813 » Otto Jahn, German archaeologist and philologist († 1869)