Family tree Trox » Trijnte Klazes Klazema (1780-????)

Birthday June 4, 1780

• The temperature on June 4, 1780 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 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.
  • May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
  • September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
  • September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
  • October 16 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
  • 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

• 1744 » Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle († 1780)
• 1754 » Franz Xaver von Zach, Slovak astronomer and academic († 1832)
• 1754 » Miguel de Azcuénaga, Argentinian soldier († 1833)
• 1787 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic († 1856)
• 1801 » James Pennethorne, English architect, designed Victoria Park († 1871)
• 1821 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright († 1897)