Dreyer Tree » Petrus Johannes van der Spuy (1757-1807)
Personal data Petrus Johannes van der Spuy
Source 1- He was born on September 4, 1757 in Kaap de Goede Hoop, Suid-Afrika.
- He died on April 2, 1807 in Kaap, Suid-Afrika, he was 49 years old.
- A child of Marthinus van der Spuy and Maria Petronella Steen
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Birthday September 4, 1757
- The temperature on September 4, 1757 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by east. 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)
- 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 1757: Source: Wikipedia
- March 14 » Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMSMonarch for breach of the Articles of War.
- May 6 » Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
- May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
- June 23 » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
- November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
Day of death April 2, 1807
- The temperature on April 2, 1807 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1807: Source: Wikipedia
- February 19 » Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
- March 25 » The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- May 29 » Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
- June 22 » In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMSLeopard attacks and boards the American frigate USSChesapeake.
- July 9 » The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
- November 29 » Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil: John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.
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- 1801 » Thomas Dadford, Jr., English engineer (b. 1761)
- 1803 » Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1721)
- 1817 » Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (b. 1740)
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