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.
  • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
  • 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.
  • 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 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
  • 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 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
  • January 20 » The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
  • April 28 » Maryland becomes the seventh 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 25 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

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
  • May 4 » Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
  • May 4 » King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.
  • September 12 » Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
  • September 14 » Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
  • November 1 » Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
  • December 25 » Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1751 » Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)
• 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)