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Christening day December 22, 1760

• The temperature on December 22, 1760 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: geheel 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1760: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
  • June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
  • June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
  • July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
  • October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
  • November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.

Day of marriage July 29, 1787

• The temperature on July 29, 1787 was about 17.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
  • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
  • August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
  • October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
  • October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

Day of death January 30, 1834

• The temperature on January 30, 1834 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt 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 1834: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
  • May 30 » Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
  • July 7 » In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
  • August 1 » Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.
  • October 16 » Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
  • December 3 » The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1836 » Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to have designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
• 1838 » Osceola, American tribal leader (b. 1804)
• 1858 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 » Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 » William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 » Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)