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Christening day July 28, 1793

• The temperature on July 28, 1793 was about 16.0 °C. There was 154 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 1 » French Revolutionary War: Battle of Aldenhoven during the Flanders Campaign.
  • May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
  • June 2 » French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
  • August 16 » French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
  • August 27 » French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
  • September 8 » French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.

Day of marriage November 24, 1816

• The temperature on November 24, 1816 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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).
• In the year 1816: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
  • April 14 » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
  • May 2 » Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
  • July 2 » The French frigateMéduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
  • August 5 » The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
  • August 14 » The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

Day of death December 31, 1871

• The temperature on December 31, 1871 was about 5.5 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
  • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
  • March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
  • March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
  • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
  • May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1872 » Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)
• 1876 » Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806)
• 1877 » Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819)
• 1888 » Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)
• 1889 » George Kerferd, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Victoria (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)