Genealogy Wylie » Robert Craig Sr. (1777-1820)

Personal data Robert Craig Sr. 


Household of Robert Craig Sr.

He had a relationship with Margaret Blair.


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  1. Robert Craig  > 1795-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Craig

John Craig
1754-1834
Mary Strain
± 1754-????

Robert Craig
1777-1820


Margaret Blair
1771-????

Robert Craig
> 1795-????

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Historical events

Birthday September 2, 1777

  • The temperature on September 2, 1777 was about 18.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 3 » American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
    • January 15 » American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
    • July 7 » American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
    • August 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
    • October 22 » American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
    • December 24 » Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

Day of death September 8, 1820

  • The temperature on September 8, 1820 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1820: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 23 » Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
    • March 6 » The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
    • April 8 » The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
    • May 1 » Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators, who plotted to kill the British Cabinet and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.
    • September 15 » Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
    • November 17 » Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)


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