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Christening day November 30, 1755

• The temperature on November 30, 1755 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. 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 1755: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 13 » Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into 2: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
  • April 15 » Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
  • June 16 » French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
  • July 9 » The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
  • September 8 » French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
  • November 25 » King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

Day of marriage September 28, 1783

• The temperature on September 28, 1783 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: 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 1783: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
  • February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
  • March 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
  • June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
  • July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
  • November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

Day of death August 18, 1786

• The temperature on August 18, 1786 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by east. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
  • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
  • June 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
  • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
  • August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
  • September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1712 » Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)
• 1765 » Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)