Family tree De Backer - Evers » Elisabeth de Becker (1742-1775)

Day of marriage May 8, 1766

• The temperature on May 8, 1766 was about 12.0 °C. There was 154 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken donker. Special wheather fenomena: donder. 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 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
  • March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
  • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
  • 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 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Day of death 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
  • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
  • June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
  • July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
  • September 25 » American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
  • October 27 » King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1736 » António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese soldier and politician (b. 1663)
• 1791 » Jacob Frank, Polish religious leader (b. 1726)
• 1831 » Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1850 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 » Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
• 1865 » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)