Genealogy Thomas » Martha Pickens (1776-1818)
Personal data Martha Pickens
Source 1- She was born on June 15, 1776 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.
- She died on March 17, 1818 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, she was 41 years old.
- A child of Robert Pickens and Dorcas Hallum
Household of Martha Pickens
She had a relationship with John Smith.
Child(ren):
- Lucinda Smith 1802-1870
- Talitha Smith 1804-1835
- Sidney Smith 1805-1835
- Miranda Smith 1808-1886
- Mary Ann Smith 1810-1877
- John Collinsworth Smith 1812-1899
- James Douthit Smith 1816-1896
- Andrew McKindrew Smith 1818-1888
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Birthday June 15, 1776
- The temperature on June 15, 1776 was about 25.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
- January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
- March 9 » The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
- April 7 » Captain John Barry and the USSLexington captures the Edward.
- July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
- September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
- December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
Day of death March 17, 1818
- The temperature on March 17, 1818 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt bui winderig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
- February 12 » Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
- March 16 » In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
- March 30 » Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
- April 4 » The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
- July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
- December 24 » The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
Same birth/death day
- 1763 » Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor († 1826)
- 1763 » Kobayashi Issa, Japanese priest and poet († 1827)
- 1765 » Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician († 1831)
- 1765 » Martin Baum, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati († 1831)
- 1767 » Rachel Jackson, American wife of Andrew Jackson († 1828)
- 1777 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh physician and academic († 1841)
- 1828 » James Edward Smith, English botanist and entomologist (b. 1759)
- 1829 » Sophia Albertina, princess-abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1753)
- 1830 » Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician (b. 1764)
- 1846 » Friedrich Bessel, German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1784)
- 1849 » William II, Dutch sovereign prince and king (b. 1792)
- 1853 » Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803)
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