The temperature on April 16, 1775 was about 6.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
May 10 » American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
July 26 » The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
August 23 » American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
Day of marriage February 26, 1793
The temperature on February 26, 1793 was about 7.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
August 8 » The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
September 18 » The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
October 12 » The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
Day of death January 1, 1858
The temperature on January 1, 1858 was about -2.9 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 1, 1856 to March 18, 1858 the cabinet Van der Brugghen, with Mr. J.L.L. van der Brugghen (protestant) as prime minister.
From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
January 9 » Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
January 25 » The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
May 15 » Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
June 16 » Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
July 29 » United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
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