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Christening day September 22, 1650

• Stadhouder Prins Willem II (Huis van Oranje) was from 1647 till 1650 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1650: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 27 » The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
  • August 13 » Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
  • September 3 » Third English Civil War: In the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles I of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
  • December 14 » Anne Greene is hanged at Oxford Castle in England for infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being pardoned, lives until 1659.

Day of marriage January 27, 1700

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1700: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 26 » The 8.7–9.2 M_w Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
  • February 27 » The island of New Britain is discovered by Europeans.
  • February 28 » Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
  • March 1 » Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753.

Day of death November 22, 1741

• The temperature on November 22, 1741 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1741: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
  • April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
  • May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
  • July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
  • August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
  • September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

Day of burial November 24, 1741

• The temperature on November 24, 1741 was about 8.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1741: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
  • March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
  • April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
  • July 31 » Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
  • August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
  • September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1694 » John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
• 1697 » Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)
• 1710 » Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637)
• 1718 » Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
• 1758 » Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680)
• 1774 » Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725)