March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
June 15 » Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
September 21 » Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
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.
Christening day January 7, 1776
The temperature on January 7, 1776 was about -6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. Source: KNMI
January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: W.J. Oving, "Family tree Oving", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-oving/I4.php : accessed January 3, 2026), "Zander AGTERHOF (1776-????)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.