Pop Oswald Tree » William CLARKE (1745-1820)
Personal data William CLARKE
Sources 1, 2- He was born in the year 1745 in Haversham, Buckinghamshire, England.
- He died on October 23, 1820 in Buckinghamshire, England, he was 75 years old.
- A child of John CLARKE and Mary Magdalen DUPUY
Household of William CLARKE
He is married to Elizabeth DEWICK.
They got married on October 5, 1777 at Haversham, Buckinghamshire, England, he was 32 years old.Source 2
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Sources
- Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812, Ancestry.com, Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England; Register Type: Parish Registers; Reference Numbers: 165p/5 / Ancestry.com
- England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Day of marriage October 5, 1777
- The temperature on October 5, 1777 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
- January 3 » American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- June 13 » American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
- August 6 » American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
- August 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
- December 16 » Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1]
- December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
Day of death October 23, 1820
- The temperature on October 23, 1820 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt regen . 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 1820: Source: Wikipedia
- January 27 » A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
- January 30 » Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
- February 23 » Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- March 6 » The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
- September 15 » Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
- October 9 » Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
Same birth/death day
- 1764 » Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1683)
- 1774 » Michel Benoist, French missionary and astronomer (b. 1715)
- 1867 » Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
- 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
- 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
- 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
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