Family tree Janneke Smids » Waatze Simons Nicolai (1758-1826)

Christening day May 7, 1758

• The temperature on May 7, 1758 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. 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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1758: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 4 » The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
  • June 30 » Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia.
  • July 8 » French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
  • July 26 » French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
  • August 25 » Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
  • December 25 » Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.

Day of marriage July 7, 1783

• The temperature on July 7, 1783 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. 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 1783: Source: Wikipedia
  • August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
  • October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
  • November 3 » The American Continental Army is disbanded.
  • November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
  • November 25 » American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
  • December 4 » At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.

Day of death November 10, 1826

• The temperature on November 10, 1826 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt regen. 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 1826: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
  • February 24 » The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
  • April 1 » Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine".
  • August 18 » Major Gordon Laing becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
  • September 11 » Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.
  • November 25 » The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1777 » Cornstalk, American tribal chief (b. 1720)
• 1808 » Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Irish-born English general and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1724)
• 1852 » Gideon Mantell, English scientist (b. 1790)
• 1865 » Henry Wirz, Swiss-American captain in Confederate army, commandant of Andersonville Prison (b. 1823)
• 1869 » John E. Wool, American general (b. 1784)
• 1873 » Maria Jane Williams, Welsh musician and folklorist (b. circa 1794)