Genealogy Deboysere » Marcus Agebertus Decraemer (1783-????)

Birthday April 24, 1783

• The temperature on April 24, 1783 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1783: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
  • March 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
  • May 26 » A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
  • June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
  • July 25 » American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
  • October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1718 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-English painter and educator († 1784)
• 1743 » Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom († 1823)
• 1784 » Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist († 1860)
• 1815 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer († 1882)
• 1823 » Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician, President of Mexico († 1889)
• 1845 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)