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Waarschuwing Attention: Partner (Sophie Ferdinande Helena van Sayn Wittgenstein) is 38 years younger.

He is married to Sophie Ferdinande Helena van Sayn Wittgenstein.

They got married on March 18, 1765, he was 62 years old.


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Birthday March 15, 1703

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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
    • May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
    • July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
    • August 23 » Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
    • December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.
    • December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Day of marriage March 18, 1765

  • The temperature on March 18, 1765 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent 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)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
    • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
    • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
    • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
    • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
    • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

Day of death June 19, 1786

  • The temperature on June 19, 1786 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
    • 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 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
    • November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
    • November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
    • December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).


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