Fischer-Sandker Groningen-Drenthe-Emsland » Pieter Jacque Croiset (1702-1740)

Christening day November 26, 1702

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1702: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
  • March 11 » The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.
  • July 19 » Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
  • November 10 » English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
  • December 30 » Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.

Day of marriage April 13, 1729

• The temperature on April 13, 1729 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: geheel 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 1729: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 30 » Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
  • November 9 » Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
  • November 29 » Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.

Day of death December 14, 1740

• The temperature on December 14, 1740 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1715 » Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (b. 1636)
• 1735 » Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian (b. 1674)
• 1741 » Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (b. 1661)
• 1785 » Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1727)
• 1788 » Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (b. 1714)
• 1788 » Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)