Ancestors Thalicia Blokland » Anneke Aarts van Manen (1777-1839)

Christening day September 7, 1777

• The temperature on September 7, 1777 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 14 » The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
  • July 6 » American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
  • September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine: The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
  • October 7 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
  • November 17 » Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.
  • December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

Day of marriage July 27, 1776

• The temperature on July 27, 1776 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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)
• In the year 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
  • January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
  • May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • September 15 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.

Day of death June 30, 1839

• The temperature on June 30, 1839 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken winderig regen. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • January 6 » The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
  • January 20 » In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
  • September 4 » Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.
  • September 9 » John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
  • November 11 » The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
  • November 27 » In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1785 » James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (b. 1696)
• 1796 » Abraham Yates Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1724)
• 1857 » Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1802)
• 1882 » Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
• 1882 » Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
• 1890 » Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American organist and composer (b. 1819)