Familie de Groot Nijmegen » Gregorius (Geurt) GERRITS CLOOSTERMAN (1705-1774)

Day of marriage January 31, 1745

• The temperature on January 31, 1745 was about 2.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken sneeuw. 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 1745: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 11 » War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch–Hanoverian army.
  • June 16 » War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
  • July 9 » French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
  • August 19 » Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
  • September 21 » A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
  • November 8 » Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.

Day of death September 20, 1774

• The temperature on September 20, 1774 was about 9.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: regen 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)
• In the year 1774: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
  • June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
  • June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
  • July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
  • August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
  • October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1793 » Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (b. 1764)
• 1803 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
• 1815 » Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)