Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » John Westbrook (1770-1845)
Personal data John Westbrook
Source 1- He was born on November 6, 1770 in Deerpark, Orange, New York.
- He died on March 17, 1845 in Brant County, Canada West (Ontario), he was 74 years old.
- A child of Anthony Westbrook and Sara Decker
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Birthday November 6, 1770
- The temperature on November 6, 1770 was about 11.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. 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 1770: Source: Wikipedia
- March 5 » Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
- April 19 » Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
- April 29 » James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
- May 26 » The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
- June 11 » British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- August 21 » James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
Day of death March 17, 1845
- The temperature on March 17, 1845 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt sneeuw . 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 1845: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- March 3 » Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- March 11 » Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
- March 25 » New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
- July 4 » Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
- August 28 » The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
- September 9 » Possible start of the Great Potato Famine.
Same birth/death day
- 1814 » Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone († 1894)
- 1841 » Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician († 1915)
- 1851 » Charles Dow, American journalist and economist († 1902)
- 1854 » John Philip Sousa, American composer and bandleader († 1932)
- 1861 » James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball († 1939)
- 1880 » Yoshisuke Aikawa, Japanese businessman and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company († 1967)
- 1828 » James Edward Smith, English botanist and entomologist (b. 1759)
- 1829 » Sophia Albertina, princess-abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1753)
- 1830 » Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician (b. 1764)
- 1846 » Friedrich Bessel, German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1784)
- 1849 » William II, Dutch sovereign prince and king (b. 1792)
- 1853 » Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803)
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