Olson's Tree » Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight (1801-1864)
Personal data Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight
Source 1- She was born on September 17, 1801 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
- She died on November 18, 1864 in Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA, she was 63 years old.
- A child of Josiah E. Dwight and Rhoda Edwards
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Birthday September 17, 1801
- The temperature on September 17, 1801 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1801: Source: Wikipedia
- February 17 » An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
- February 27 » Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- March 28 » Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.
- May 10 » First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
- July 12 » British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
- August 1 » First Barbary War: The American schooner USSEnterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
Day of death November 18, 1864
- The temperature on November 18, 1864 was about 9.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- February 27 » American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
- May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
- July 30 » American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
- November 11 » American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.
- December 15 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat unit.
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- 1819 » Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic († 1901)
- 1820 » Émile Augier, French playwright († 1889)
- 1820 » Earl Van Dorn, Confederate general († 1863)
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- 1841 » Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (b. 1785)
- 1852 » Rose Philippine Duchesne, French-American nun and saint (b. 1769)
- 1886 » Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
- 1889 » William Allingham, Irish-English poet and scholar (b. 1824)
- 1909 » Renée Vivien, English-French poet (b. 1877)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P14735.php : accessed February 16, 2026), "Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight (1801-1864)".