Family tree Zijlmans » Anna Maria van Tiggel (1775-????)

Birthday July 14, 1775

• The temperature on July 14, 1775 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • June 14 » American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
  • July 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
  • December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1743 » Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician († 1816)
• 1755 » Michel de Beaupuy, French general († 1796)
• 1785 » Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist, playwright, and diplomat († 1851)
• 1795 » Eleanor Anne Porden, British Romantic poet; wife of the explorer, John Franklin († 1825)
• 1801 » Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist († 1858)
• 1816 » Arthur de Gobineau, French author and diplomat († 1882)