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Personal data Jan Melsz van de Merwe 


Household of Jan Melsz van de Merwe

He is married to Adriana Willemsd Leenheer.

They got married on December 12, 1801 at Dordrecht, zh.nld, he was 23 years old.


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Birthday October 25, 1778

  • The temperature on October 25, 1778 was about 7.0 °C. Wind 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 18 » American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
    • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
    • July 27 » American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
    • August 21 » American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
    • November 26 » In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
    • December 15 » American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.

Christening day November 1, 1778

  • The temperature on November 1, 1778 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
    • February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
    • February 6 » American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
    • February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
    • May 1 » American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
    • August 26 » The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.

Day of marriage December 12, 1801

  • The temperature on December 12, 1801 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: hagel storm(achtig). Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1801: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 8 » War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
    • March 21 » The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt.
    • April 2 » French Revolutionary Wars: The British capture the Danish fleet.
    • May 6 » Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMSSpeedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
    • July 6 » First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
    • August 1 » First Barbary War: The American schooner USSEnterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.


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