Genealogieën vanuit de Antwerpse Rupelstreek » Guilielmus Bessems (1703-1760)

Personal data Guilielmus Bessems 


Household of Guilielmus Bessems

He is married to Joanna Van Rompaeij.

They were married in church in the year 1742 at Kontich, 2550, Antwerpen, Belgium.


Child(ren):

  3. Cornelius Bessems  1747-????

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Christening day December 10, 1703

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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
    • February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
    • May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
    • July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
    • December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.
    • December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Day of death April 2, 1760

  • The temperature on April 2, 1760 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: rijp. 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)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1760: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 20 » The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
    • June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
    • July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
    • August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
    • October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
    • October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II


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