Family tree De Prest » Anna Claerbout (1731-1780)

Day of marriage May 2, 1755

• The temperature on May 2, 1755 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. 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
  • April 2 » Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
  • 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.
  • July 25 » British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
  • August 10 » Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.

Day of death February 10, 1780

• The temperature on February 10, 1780 was about 2.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southeast. 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 16 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
  • April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
  • September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
  • October 10 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
  • November 4 » The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
  • November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1755 » Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (b. 1689)
• 1782 » Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (b. 1702)
• 1829 » Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
• 1837 » Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (b. 1799)
• 1854 » José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general. President three times (1844–1854) (b. 1792)
• 1857 » David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770)