Genealogy Harssema » Princess Wilhelmina Caroline OLDENBURG of Denmark (1747-1820)

Personal data Princess Wilhelmina Caroline OLDENBURG of Denmark 


Household of Princess Wilhelmina Caroline OLDENBURG of Denmark

Waarschuwing Attention: Husband (Wilhelm I (IX) von HESSEN-KASSEL) is also her cousin.

She is married to Wilhelm I (IX) von HESSEN-KASSEL.

They got married on September 1, 1764 at Christiansborg Castle Copenhagen Denmark, she was 17 years old.


Child(ren):



Notes about Princess Wilhelmina Caroline OLDENBURG of Denmark

34C1R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
34C2R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
34C3R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
34C5R from King Adgillis II van Friesland (ca 0678 - ca 737).
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).

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Historical events

  • The temperature on July 10, 1747 was about 14.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1747: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 31 » The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
    • May 14 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
    • October 25 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
  • The temperature on September 1, 1764 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. 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)
  • 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 1764: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
    • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
    • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
    • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • The temperature on January 14, 1820 was about -9 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: omtrent helder dampig. 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
    • January 30 » Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
    • 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.
    • March 15 » Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
    • April 12 » Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
    • October 9 » Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
    • November 20 » An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)


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