Database Van Broekhoven » Rudolphus van Bijnen (1711-1777)

Day of marriage May 13, 1764

• The temperature on May 13, 1764 was about 13.0 °C. There was 154 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: regen 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
  • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
  • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
  • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Day of death April 6, 1777

• The temperature on April 6, 1777 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 13 » American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
  • June 14 » The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
  • July 31 » The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
  • August 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
  • September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
  • December 16 » Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1]

Source: Wikipedia

• 1755 » Richard Rawlinson, English minister and historian (b. 1690)
• 1790 » Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
• 1825 » Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter and educator (b. 1757)
• 1829 » Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (b. 1802)
• 1833 » Adamantios Korais, Greek philosopher and scholar (b. 1748)
• 1838 » José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (b. 1763)