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Personal data Benjamin Silliman 

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  • Alternative name: Benjamin Silliman Sr.
  • He was born on August 8, 1779 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States of America.
  • Alternative: He was born Aug 8, 1779 in North Stratford, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.
  • He died on November 24, 1864 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America, he was 85 years old.
  • Alternative: He died Nov 24, 1864 in New Haven, Connecticut, he was 84 years old.
  • He is buried in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America.
  • A child of John Noyes and Mary Fish

Household of Benjamin Silliman

(1) He is married to Harriet Trumbull.

They got married Oct 10, 1809 at Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, he was 29 years old.

They got married MAY 14, 1840 at New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, he was 60 years old.


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(2) He is married to Sarah Isabella McClellan.

They got married on September 17, 1851 at New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, he was 72 years old.

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    Birthday August 8, 1779

    • The temperature on August 8, 1779 was about 20.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: donker regen. 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 1779: Source: Wikipedia
      • June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
      • July 16 » American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
      • August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
      • September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
      • September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
      • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

    Day of marriage September 17, 1851

    • The temperature on September 17, 1851 was about 16.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
      • March 11 » The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
      • June 5 » Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
      • August 22 » The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
      • November 14 » Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
      • December 2 » French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
      • December 24 » The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.

    Day of death November 24, 1864

    • The temperature on November 24, 1864 was about 5.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
      • February 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
      • May 7 » The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
      • June 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
      • August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
      • November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.
    

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