Genealogy De Vos-Verschuur » Gijsbertje van Overeem (1766-????)

Birthday September 7, 1766

• The temperature on September 7, 1766 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw. 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 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
  • 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.
  • 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 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1740 » Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor and illustrator († 1814)
• 1777 » Heinrich Stölzel, German horn player and composer († 1844)
• 1791 » Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Italian poet and author († 1863)
• 1795 » John William Polidori, English physician and author († 1821)
• 1801 » Sarel Cilliers, South African preacher and activist (d.1871)
• 1803 » William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (d.1845)