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Christening day June 3, 1712

• The temperature on June 3, 1712 was about 18.0 °C. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1712: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 10 » Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
  • February 29 » February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
  • April 6 » The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
  • July 31 » Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea; the result is inconclusive.
  • August 17 » Action of 17 August 1712 New Deep naval battle between Denmark and Sweden.
  • October 3 » The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

Day of marriage December 18, 1740

• The temperature on December 18, 1740 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
  • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
  • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
  • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
  • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
  • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of death July 4, 1790

• The temperature on July 4, 1790 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. 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 1790: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 4 » France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
  • May 31 » The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
  • November 1 » Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
  • December 6 » The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
  • December 22 » The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.
  • December 26 » Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1754 » Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright and author (b. 1680)
• 1761 » Samuel Richardson, English author and painter (b. 1689)
• 1780 » Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
• 1787 » Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
• 1821 » Richard Cosway, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
• 1826 » John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)