Family tree Pierens-Raeman » Anna Maria de Bruyckere (1778-????)

Birthday April 20, 1778

• The temperature on April 20, 1778 was about 9.0 °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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
  • February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
  • August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
  • December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1745 » Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist († 1826)
• 1748 » Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian († 1831)
• 1772 » William Lawless, Irish revolutionary and French general († 1824)
• 1808 » Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France († 1873)
• 1816 » Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer († 1895)
• 1818 » Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and engineer († 1893)