Olson's Tree » Rufus King Delafield (1802-1874)
Personal data Rufus King Delafield
Source 1- He was born on November 18, 1802 in New York City, New York.
- Alternative: He was born on November 18, 1802 in New York, United States.
- He died on February 6, 1874 in Manhattan, New York, New Yorik, United States, he was 71 years old.
- Alternative: He died in the year 1874 in New York City, New York, he was 71 years old.
- A child of John Delafield and Ann Hallett
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Historical events
Birthday November 18, 1802
- The temperature on November 18, 1802 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: 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 1802: Source: Wikipedia
- March 25 » The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
- March 28 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
- April 26 » Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
- May 3 » Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.
- May 20 » By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
- September 11 » France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Day of death February 6, 1874
- The temperature on February 6, 1874 was about 1.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
- From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In the year 1874: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- February 28 » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
- July 14 » The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
- July 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
- August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
- November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
- December 29 » The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.
Same birth/death day
- 1772 » Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia († 1806)
- 1774 » Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands († 1837)
- 1785 » David Wilkie, Scottish painter and academic († 1841)
- 1787 » Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype († 1851)
- 1804 » Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Italian general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Italy († 1878)
- 1810 » Asa Gray, American botanist and academic († 1888)
- 1833 » Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1762)
- 1834 » Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
- 1865 » Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (b. 1836)
- 1899 » Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1874)
- 1899 » Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1902 » John Colton, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
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