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Personal data King William IV HANOVER of the United Kingdom 


Household of King William IV HANOVER of the United Kingdom

(1) He is married to Caroline von LINSINGEN.

They got married


Child(ren):



(2) He is married to Dorothea BLAND.

They got married


Child(ren):

  3. Sophia FITZ-CLARENCE  1796-1837 
  4. Mary FITZ-CLARENCE  1798-1864
  8. Augusta FITZ-CLARENCE  1803-1865 
  9. Augustus FITZ-CLARENCE  1805-1854 
  10. Amelia FITZ-CLARENCE  1807-1858 


Notes about King William IV HANOVER of the United Kingdom

35th Cousin from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
35C1R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
35C2R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
35C4R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
35C1R* from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
36th Cousin from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
36C1R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
36C3R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
35C2R* from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
36C1R* from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
37th Cousin from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
37C2R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
35C3R* from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
36C2R* from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
37C1R* from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
38C1R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).

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Birthday August 21, 1765

  • The temperature on August 21, 1765 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. 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 death June 20, 1837

  • The temperature on June 20, 1837 was about 24.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • March 4 » The city of Chicago is incorporated.
    • May 10 » Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
    • July 4 » Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
    • November 22 » Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
    • December 7 » The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated.
    • December 17 » A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.


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