Rois Europe » Adam-Wenzel Batthyany de Nemet-Ujvar (1722-1787)

Day of marriage September 25, 1749

• The temperature on September 25, 1749 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
• 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 1749: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
  • January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
  • January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
  • May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
  • June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

Day of death October 25, 1787

• The temperature on October 25, 1787 was about 8.0 °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 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
  • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
  • May 25 » After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
  • August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
  • October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1733 » Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667)
• 1757 » Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (b. 1672)
• 1760 » George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
• 1806 » Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (b. 1750)
• 1826 » Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (b. 1745)
• 1833 » Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (b. 1789)