Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Mary Abbe (1726-1788)

Christening day September 11, 1726

• Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1726: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 13 » Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
  • February 19 » The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
  • May 9 » Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
  • October 28 » The novel Gulliver's Travels is published.

Day of marriage April 23, 1747

• The temperature on April 23, 1747 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1747: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 31 » The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
  • May 14 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
  • October 25 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.

Day of death January 10, 1788

• The temperature on January 10, 1788 was about 0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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 1788: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
  • January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
  • February 6 » Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
  • June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
  • July 26 » New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1754 » Edward Cave, English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (b. 1691)
• 1761 » Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (b. 1711)
• 1778 » Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician (b. 1707)
• 1794 » Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (b. 1754)
• 1811 » Joseph Chénier, French poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1764)
• 1824 » Victor Emmanuel I, duke of Savoy and king of Sardinia (b. 1759)