Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Witte Ariesz van CAPELLEN (1777-????)

Birthday July 7, 1777

• The temperature on July 7, 1777 was about 14.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
  • April 13 » American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
  • April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
  • August 6 » American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
  • November 15 » American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
  • December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom († 1834)
• 1766 » Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general († 1815)
• 1831 » Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer († 1914)
• 1833 » Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator († 1898)
• 1843 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
• 1846 » Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author († 1916)