Genealogy Kalshoven » Maria Elisabeth Coster (1740-1788)

Christening day November 19, 1740

• The temperature on November 19, 1740 was about 4.0 °C. There was 70 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. 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 1740: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
  • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
  • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
  • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
  • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
  • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of marriage November 18, 1764

• The temperature on November 18, 1764 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken donker. 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 1764: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
  • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
  • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
  • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Day of death February 16, 1788

• The temperature on February 16, 1788 was about -3 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. 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 1788: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
  • January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
  • February 9 » The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
  • April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
  • April 28 » Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1710 » Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (b. 1632)
• 1721 » James Craggs the Younger, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1686)
• 1754 » Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
• 1820 » Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)