Genealogy van der Wal » Willem Cornelisz van Eck (1710-1790)

Christening day June 15, 1710

• The temperature on June 15, 1710 was about 16.0 °C. 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 1710: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 28 » Battle of Helsingborg: 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
  • April 5 » The Statute of Anne receives the royal assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
  • April 10 » The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
  • August 20 » War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
  • October 13 » Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.

Day of marriage May 10, 1733

• The temperature on May 10, 1733 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. 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 1733: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 12 » Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.
  • May 29 » The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.
  • July 30 » The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
  • November 23 » The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.

Day of death August 25, 1790

• The temperature on August 25, 1790 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. 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 1790: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 1 » The first United States census is authorized.
  • May 31 » Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
  • May 31 » The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
  • July 9 » The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
  • October 22 » Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States in the Harmar Campaign.
  • December 26 » Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.

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• 1774 » Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer and educator (b. 1714)
• 1776 » David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1711)
• 1794 » Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
• 1797 » Thomas Chittenden, Governor of the Vermont Republic (later 1st Governor of the State of Vermont) (b. 1730)
• 1819 » James Watt, Scottish-English engineer and instrument maker (b. 1736)
• 1822 » William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738)