Dick Nijborg's genealogical file » Roelf Bierling (1765-1808)

Christening day September 4, 1765

• The temperature on September 4, 1765 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: donker 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)
• 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 1765: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
  • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
  • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
  • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
  • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
  • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

Day of marriage October 26, 1790

• The temperature on October 26, 1790 was about 7.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: 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.
  • July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
  • July 16 » The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
  • July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
  • September 25 » Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
  • December 6 » The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.

Day of death May 12, 1808

• The temperature on May 12, 1808 was about 13.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1808: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 21 » Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
  • June 15 » Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
  • July 8 » Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
  • August 21 » Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
  • September 13 » Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
  • October 14 » The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1784 » Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and academic (b. 1710)
• 1792 » Charles Simon Favart, French playwright and composer (b. 1710)
• 1796 » Johann Uz, German poet and author (b. 1720)
• 1801 » Nicholas Repnin, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (b. 1734)
• 1842 » Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (b. 1799)
• 1845 » János Batsányi, Hungarian poet and academic (b. 1763)