Family tree Smit-Jansen » Jacob Jans Jansema (1776-????)

Birthday December 19, 1776

• The temperature on December 19, 1776 was about 2.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. 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
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
  • July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
  • September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
  • September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
  • November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
  • December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1778 » Marie Thérèse of France († 1851)
• 1796 » Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic († 1873)
• 1797 » Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist († 1838)
• 1817 » James J. Archer, American lawyer and general († 1864)
• 1820 » Mary Livermore, American journalist and activist († 1905)
• 1825 » George Frederick Bristow, American violinist and composer († 1898)