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Birthday November 29, 1782

• The temperature on November 29, 1782 was about 3.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. 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 1782: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
  • August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
  • September 14 » American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.
  • November 30 » American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
  • December 14 » The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2km (1.2mi).
  • December 16 » British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1781 » Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher († 1865)
• 1797 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer († 1848)
• 1798 » Alexander Brullov, Russian painter and architect, designed the Pulkovo Observatory († 1877)
• 1799 » Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and academic († 1888)
• 1802 » Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and author († 1827)
• 1803 » Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist († 1853)