Database Van Broekhoven » Catharina Kuijpers (1733-1789)

Day of marriage April 22, 1754

• The temperature on April 22, 1754 was about 7.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel 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)
• 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 1754: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
  • May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
  • July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

Day of death August 14, 1789

• The temperature on August 14, 1789 was about 17.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. 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 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
  • July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
  • August 4 » France: Members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
  • August 7 » The United States Department of War is established.
  • September 22 » The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
  • September 24 » The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.

Day of burial August 16, 1789

• The temperature on August 16, 1789 was about 16.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. 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 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
  • April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
  • June 8 » James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
  • July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
  • October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
  • November 21 » North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1727 » William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
• 1774 » Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
• 1784 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
• 1854 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
• 1856 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
• 1860 » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)