Family tree Bindt » Jan Pietersz Lust (1749-1828)

Christening day February 18, 1749

• The temperature on February 18, 1749 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1749: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
  • January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
  • January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
  • May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
  • June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

Day of marriage December 10, 1775

• The temperature on December 10, 1775 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
  • May 20 » The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • May 31 » American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
  • July 26 » The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
  • July 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.

Day of death May 26, 1828

• The temperature on May 26, 1828 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1828: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
  • February 21 » Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
  • April 20 » René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter (and the first to return from) Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing.
  • May 19 » U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
  • November 5 » Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
  • November 16 » Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1799 » James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish linguist, biologist, and judge (b. 1714)
• 1818 » Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785)
• 1818 » Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1761)
• 1824 » Capel Lofft, English lawyer (b. 1751)
• 1840 » Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (b. 1764)
• 1881 » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)