Family Tree Bernard Hazenberg » Anna Maria /Bruggen (Anna Maria) van Brugge (1698-1766)

Day of marriage October 5, 1721

• The temperature on October 5, 1721 was about 13.0 °C. 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 1721: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 6 » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
  • March 24 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
  • April 4 » Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
  • April 26 » A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
  • August 18 » The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
  • October 22 » Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.

Day of death September 23, 1766

• The temperature on September 23, 1766 was about 23.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: helder. 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.
  • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
  • 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.
  • 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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• 1728 » Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1655)
• 1738 » Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (b. 1668)
• 1764 » Robert Dodsley, English poet and playwright (b. 1703)
• 1773 » Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
• 1789 » John Rogers, American lawyer and politician (b. 1723)
• 1835 » Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)