Database Van Broekhoven » Elizabetha van Gageldonck (1741-1782)

Day of marriage April 28, 1780

• The temperature on April 28, 1780 was about 12.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 29 » American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
  • August 16 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
  • August 22 » James Cook's ship HMSResolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
  • 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.
  • November 4 » The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.

Day of death June 8, 1782

• The temperature on June 8, 1782 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent 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)
• In the year 1782: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
  • February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
  • March 8 » Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
  • April 9 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of the Saintes begins.
  • August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
  • December 16 » British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1768 » Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1717)
• 1771 » George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1716)
• 1795 » Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1809 » Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
• 1831 » Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)