Local Heritage Book Rütenbrock » Gerhard Henrich - Gerhard Herbers (1757-1798)

Christening day August 7, 1757

• The temperature on August 7, 1757 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: helder. 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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1757: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
  • May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
  • June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
  • June 23 » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
  • December 5 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
  • December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

Day of marriage April 18, 1780

• The temperature on April 18, 1780 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
  • September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf Massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
  • September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
  • October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
  • October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
  • December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

Day of death April 22, 1798

• The temperature on April 22, 1798 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1798: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 15 » The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
  • February 20 » Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
  • April 7 » The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
  • June 9 » Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
  • July 14 » The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
  • September 3 » The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1758 » Antoine de Jussieu, French botanist and physician (b. 1686)
• 1778 » James Hargreaves, British inventor (b. 1720)
• 1806 » Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (b. 1763)
• 1821 » Gregory V of Constantinople, Greek patriarch and saint (b. 1746)
• 1833 » Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (b. 1771)
• 1850 » Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798)