Dreyer Tree » Jacobus Johannes Malan (1739-1806)

Christening day May 3, 1739

• The temperature on May 3, 1739 was about 10.0 °C. There was 70 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1739: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
  • February 23 » At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
  • March 22 » Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
  • September 9 » Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
  • October 3 » The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War.
  • November 20 » Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Day of marriage September 5, 1762

• The temperature on September 5, 1762 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest by west. Weather type: geheel 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1762: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 5 » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
  • May 22 » Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
  • May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
  • July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
  • July 17 » Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
  • September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.

Day of death August 19, 1806

• The temperature on August 19, 1806 was about 23.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 year 1806: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 23 » After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
  • March 29 » Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
  • July 10 » The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
  • September 23 » Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
  • October 9 » Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
  • November 15 » Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)

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• 1753 » Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
• 1808 » Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721)
• 1822 » Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
• 1883 » Jeremiah S. Black, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (b. 1810)
• 1889 » Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1838)
• 1895 » John Wesley Hardin, American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (b. 1853)