March 15 » Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
May 2 » John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
May 5 » In preparation for the Franco-Dutch War, Louis XIV of France personally inspects his troops at Charleroi in one of the most magnificent displays of military power in the seventeenth century.
August 20 » Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in The Hague.
Day of marriage December 15, 1710
The temperature on December 15, 1710 was about 12.0 °C. Source: KNMI
February 28 » Battle of Helsingborg: 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
April 5 » The Statute of Anne receives the royal assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
April 10 » The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
August 20 » War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
October 13 » Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
Day of death November 22, 1747
The temperature on November 22, 1747 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: David Raymond Garvey, "David Garvey Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/david-garvey-tree/I320094865140.php : accessed May 1, 2025), "Governor Benjamin Miller (1672-1747)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.