Database Van Broekhoven » Arnoldus van der Lee (1743-1791)

Day of marriage September 11, 1783

• The temperature on September 11, 1783 was about 13.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. 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 1783: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
  • June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
  • October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
  • November 4 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
  • November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
  • November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

Day of death December 11, 1791

• The temperature on December 11, 1791 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. 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
  • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
  • August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
  • August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
  • September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
  • September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
  • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1737 » John Strype, English priest, historian, and author (b. 1643)
• 1747 » Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
• 1797 » Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
• 1826 » Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
• 1840 » Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
• 1872 » Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)