Family tree Willemsen-Barendsma » Johannes Laurentius Scheepers (1783-????)

Birthday March 25, 1783

• The temperature on March 25, 1783 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly 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 1783: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
  • April 15 » Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
  • April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
  • July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
  • September 3 » American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  • November 3 » The American Continental Army is disbanded.

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• 1745 » John Barry, American naval officer and father of the American navy († 1803)
• 1767 » Joachim Murat, French general († 1815)
• 1782 » Caroline Bonaparte, French daughter of Carlo Buonaparte († 1839)
• 1800 » Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and academic († 1889)
• 1808 » José de Espronceda, Spanish poet and author († 1842)
• 1824 » Clinton L. Merriam, American banker and politician († 1900)