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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
      • January 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
      • February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
      • May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
      • June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
      • July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
      • September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

    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.
      • May 15 » The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
      • May 21 » Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
      • 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.
      • July 29 » Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
      • August 22 » The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
      • October 18 » Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

    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 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
      • May 7 » American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
      • June 15 » American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
      • September 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
      • October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
      • December 4 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta.
    

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