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Display at West Point, NY consisting of thirteen links of The Great Chain[/caption]
A long chain is stretched across the Hudson river to prevent the British fleet from advancing there (Apr 30), France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain (Jul 10), the Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States (Sep 19), James Cook becomes the first European to land on Maui (Nov 26), the American Revolutionary War goes on - and all these fine people were born:
1778-xxxx Quamina Gladstone* Guianese slave/involved in the Demerara rebellion of 1823/Guyanese national hero - Ghana (1823/c.45) 1778-0106 Thomas Lincoln* farmer/ carpenter/father of Abraham Lincoln - Rockingham County, Virginia USA (1851/73) 1778-0109 Thomas Brown* philosopher/poet - Kirkmabreck, Wigtownshire, Scotland (1820/42) 1778-0203 John Ritchie* newspaper owner - Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland (1870/92) 1778-0204 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle* Swiss botanist - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1841/63) 1778-0222 Rembrandt Peale* portrait painter/museum keeper - Bucks County, Pennsylvania (1860/82) 1778-0325 Sophie Blanchard* aeronaut/balloonist - Trois-Canons, France (1819/41) 1778-0410 William Hazlitt* writer/painter/philosopher - Maidstone, Kent, England (1830/52) 1778-0414 Johan Essbjörn* priest/editor of the first publication of missionary work in Finnish language - Harju, Sweden-Finland (1821/43) 1778-0430 Arvid David Hummel* entomologist/notary - Gothenburg, Sweden (1836/58) 1778-0512 José de la Mar* Peruvian military leader/politician/P - Cuenca (1830/52) 1778-0607 Beau Brummell* the preeminent example of a dandy/his name still associated with style and good looks - London, England (1840/61)-a 1778-0611 John Robison* inventor/scientific writer - Edinburgh, Scotland (1843/64) 1778-0613 Elizabeth Henrietta Macquarie* (b Campbell) the second wife of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales/played a significant role in the establishment of the colony - Kilcalmonell, Argyll and Bute, Scotland (1835/56) 1778-0617 Gregory Blaxland* pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia - Kent, England (1853/74) 1778-0703 Carl Ludvig Engel* architect (Empire style) - Charlottenburg, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1840/61) 1778-0827 Mary Mussleman Whitmer* German-American Book of Mormon Witness - Germany (1856/77) 1778-0920 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen* naval officer/cartogapher/ explorer - Lahhentagge, Riga Governorate, Russian Empire (1852/73) 1778-0923 Mariano Moreno* lawyer/politician - Buenos Aires, Colonial Argentina (1811/32) 1778-1005 Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac* archaeologist/writer - Figeac, France (1867/88) 1778-1101 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden* King of Sweden (1792-1809)/the last Swedish ruler of Finland - Stockholm Palace, Sweden (1837/58) 1778-1225 Joseph Aspdin* cement manufacturer - Leeds, England (1855/76) Updated 17.11.2021-1 Search for another year here