Famille DELETANG - GUILLEMOT » François DOUCET (1698-1766)

Day of marriage June 6, 1735

• The temperature on June 6, 1735 was about 12.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: regen helder regen. Special wheather fenomena: bliksem. 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 1735: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
  • March 10 » An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
  • July 11 » Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
  • August 5 » Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

Day of death November 19, 1766

• The temperature on November 19, 1766 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. 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)
• In the year 1766: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
  • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
  • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
  • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
  • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
  • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

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• 1723 » Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
• 1772 » William Nelson, American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
• 1773 » James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)
• 1785 » Bernard de Bury, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1720)
• 1798 » Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
• 1804 » Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)