Emigranten » Adriana de Bliek (1763-1806)

Christening day October 30, 1763

• The temperature on October 30, 1763 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. 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)
• 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 1763: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 7 » Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
  • June 2 » Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
  • July 31 » Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
  • September 1 » Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.
  • September 14 » Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
  • October 7 » King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.

Day of marriage January 18, 1789

• The temperature on January 18, 1789 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: 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
  • January 30 » Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
  • June 20 » Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
  • August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
  • September 15 » The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
  • September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
  • October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.

Day of death January 27, 1806

• The temperature on January 27, 1806 was about 0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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.
  • April 21 » Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa.
  • August 6 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
  • October 9 » Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
  • October 17 » Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1770 » Philippe Macquer, French historian (b. 1720)
• 1794 » Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general (b. 1765)
• 1812 » John Perkins, Anglo-Jamaican captain
• 1814 » Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1762)
• 1816 » Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, English admiral and politician (b. 1724)
• 1851 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (b. 1789)