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Ancestors (and descendant) of William C Rigdon

James Rigdon
1781-1861
Nancy Jane Shelly
1785-1861
Daniel Bayless
1775-1864
Sarah Spurgeon
1784-1863
Pryor Rigdon
1814-1900

William C Rigdon
1842-1880


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    1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=1435444&pid=1558
      / Ancestry.com
    2. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, Book Title: Genealogy and history of the Newkirk, Hamilton and Bayless families / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday March 26, 1842

    • The temperature on March 26, 1842 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt . 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 1842: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
      • January 13 » Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
      • February 21 » John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
      • May 8 » A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
      • May 16 » The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.
      • August 14 » American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
      • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

    Day of death May 30, 1880

    • The temperature on May 30, 1880 was about 12.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
      • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
      • July 27 » Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
      • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
      • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
      • September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
    

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