Family tree der families Van Santvoort, Truyts, Callebaut, Cambré, Coppens, Dieltjens en aanverwanten. » Anna Catharina Geuens (1780-????)

Birthday October 10, 1780

• The temperature on October 10, 1780 was about 13.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
  • April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
  • August 22 » James Cook's ship HMSResolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
  • October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
  • October 10 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
  • November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1780 » John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher († 1844)
• 1794 » William Whiting Boardman, American judge and politician († 1871)
• 1810 » Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania († 1897)
• 1813 » Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer and philanthropist († 1901)
• 1819 » Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian and author († 1883)
• 1825 » Paul Kruger, South African soldier and politician, 5th President of the South African Republic († 1904)