Genealogy Petroucic » Anna Maria Welter (1746-1789)

Day of marriage February 5, 1766

• The temperature on February 5, 1766 was about -3 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken omtrent helder 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)
• In the year 1766: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
  • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
  • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
  • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
  • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
  • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Day of death July 5, 1789

• The temperature on July 5, 1789 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. 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 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
  • July 9 » In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
  • September 24 » The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
  • September 29 » The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
  • October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
  • October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1719 » Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (b. 1641)
• 1773 » Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
• 1819 » William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b.1744)
• 1826 » Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
• 1833 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
• 1859 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)