Clarke Family Tree » Robert Throckmorton (1702-1791)

Christening day August 22, 1702

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1702: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
  • March 11 » The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.
  • July 19 » Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
  • November 10 » English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
  • December 30 » Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.

Day of marriage February 25, 1719

• The temperature on February 25, 1719 was about 4.0 °C. Source: KNMI
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1719: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
  • June 10 » Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.

Day of death December 8, 1791

• The temperature on December 8, 1791 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. 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 1791: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
  • January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
  • February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
  • July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
  • September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
  • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1746 » Charles Radclyffe, English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)
• 1756 » William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)
• 1768 » Jean Denis Attiret, French painter and missionary (b. 1702)
• 1779 » Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
• 1815 » Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)
• 1830 » Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)