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Birthday March 25, 1766

• The temperature on March 25, 1766 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: hagel sneeuw betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
  • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
  • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
  • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
  • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
  • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1741 » Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor and educator († 1828)
• 1745 » John Barry, American naval officer and father of the American navy († 1803)
• 1767 » Joachim Murat, French general († 1815)
• 1782 » Caroline Bonaparte, French daughter of Carlo Buonaparte († 1839)
• 1800 » Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and academic († 1889)
• 1808 » José de Espronceda, Spanish poet and author († 1842)