Sluzigers (e.a.) » Annigjen Jochems Knobbe (1766-1814)

Christening day May 25, 1766

• The temperature on May 25, 1766 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken helder. 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
  • March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
  • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
  • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
  • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
  • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Day of marriage March 30, 1788

• The temperature on March 30, 1788 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: 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.
  • March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
  • March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
  • April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
  • May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
  • December 22 » Nguyễn Huệ proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the Lê dynasty.

Day of death March 31, 1814

• The temperature on March 31, 1814 was about 6.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: . Source: KNMI
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  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 1814: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 10 » Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
  • March 10 » Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
  • May 30 » The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power.
  • July 24 » War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
  • August 24 » British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
  • December 25 » Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1797 » Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745)
• 1837 » John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776)
• 1850 » John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1855 » Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1816)
• 1877 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1801)