Family tree Van 't Veld » Anna Elisabeth Francisca Dassen (1784-????)

Birthday January 25, 1784

• The temperature on January 25, 1784 was about -3 °C. Wind direction mainly west. 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 1784: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 14 » American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
  • March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
  • March 22 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
  • April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
  • June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
  • August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1755 » Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (probable; d. 1815)
• 1759 » Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter († 1796)
• 1783 » William Colgate, English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive († 1857)
• 1794 » François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer († 1878)
• 1796 » William MacGillivray, Scottish ornithologist and biologist († 1852)
• 1813 » J. Marion Sims, American gynecologist and physician († 1883)