The temperature on July 7, 1776 was about 18.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 1 » General George Washington hoists the first United States flag; the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill.
March 28 » Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
November 16 » American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
Christening day July 14, 1776
The temperature on July 14, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
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).
Day of death February 20, 1810
The temperature on February 20, 1810 was about -9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt omtrent helder sneeuw. Source: KNMI
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De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
February 4 » Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
April 19 » Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
April 20 » The governor of Caracas, Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
May 25 » May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence.
June 23 » John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
July 9 » Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
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