Baker England Roots » James William Priest 6GGF (1610-1676)

Christening day March 27, 1825

• The temperature on March 27, 1825 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1825: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 9 » After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
  • March 2 » Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
  • June 4 » General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
  • September 27 » The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
  • October 9 » Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
  • December 30 » The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.

Day of death March 4, 1676

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1676: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 17 » Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan.
  • June 1 » Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
  • August 12 » Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
  • September 19 » Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
  • November 21 » The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
  • December 4 » The Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War.

Day of burial May 10, 1677

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1677: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 17 » The Siege of Valenciennes, during the Franco-Dutch War, ends with France's taking of the city.
  • April 19 » The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
  • July 23 » Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
  • November 4 » The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1604 » Fausto Sozzini, Italian theologian and educator (b. 1539)
• 1615 » Hans von Aachen, German painter and educator (b. 1552)
• 1710 » Louis III, duke of Bourbon (b. 1668)
• 1733 » Claude de Forbin, French admiral and politician (b. 1656)
• 1744 » John Anstis, English historian and politician (b. 1669)
• 1762 » Johannes Zick, German painter (b. 1702)