FutureHistory » Isabella Carolina Drowaert (1777-????)

Birthday September 4, 1777

• The temperature on September 4, 1777 was about 15.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
  • March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
  • April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
  • July 31 » The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
  • September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
  • October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1745 » Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad († 1812)
• 1755 » Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician († 1810)
• 1768 » François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France († 1848)
• 1776 » Stephen Whitney, American businessman († 1860)
• 1798 » Raynold Kaufgetz, Swiss soldier, economist, and politician († 1869)
• 1809 » Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile († 1880)