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Personal data Selden Tennant

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Household of Selden Tennant

He/she had a relationship with Lydia Allen.

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Sources

  1. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday September 22, 1787

  • The temperature on September 22, 1787 was about 17.0 °C. 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 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
    • February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
    • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
    • September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
    • October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
    • December 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

Day of death November 22, 1871

  • The temperature on November 22, 1871 was about -1.0 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 3 » In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
    • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
    • July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
    • July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
    • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
    • November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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