Family tree Driessen » Margaretha Jacoba van Ravesteijn (1705-1774)

Christening day June 22, 1705

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1705: Source: Wikipedia
  • November 15 » Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).

Day of marriage December 2, 1744

• The temperature on December 2, 1744 was about 2.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: sneeuw betrokken. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1744: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 22 » War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
  • July 4 » The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
  • September 30 » War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.

Day of death February 2, 1774

• The temperature on February 2, 1774 was about 0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer 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 1774: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
  • June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
  • July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
  • July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
  • September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
  • October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

Day of burial February 7, 1774

• The temperature on February 7, 1774 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw. 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 1774: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
  • March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
  • June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
  • August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
  • September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
  • October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1723 » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
• 1768 » Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
• 1769 » Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
• 1802 » Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
• 1804 » George Walton, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
• 1831 » Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (b. 1768)