Genealogy Jaegers-Spring » Maria Sibilla Reijners (1766-????)

Birthday January 19, 1766

• The temperature on January 19, 1766 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1737 » Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer, and educator († 1802)
• 1739 » Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall († 1808)
• 1752 » James Morris III, American captain († 1820)
• 1757 » Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf († 1831)
• 1788 » Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician († 1874)
• 1790 » Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic († 1855)