Family tree Driessen » Wilhelmina Catharina van Alphen (1716-1775)

Christening day May 15, 1716

• The temperature on May 15, 1716 was about 11.0 °C. 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 1716: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 8 » The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.
  • August 5 » Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed in the Battle of Petrovaradin.
  • August 21 » Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule.

Day of marriage March 1, 1740

• The temperature on March 1, 1740 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen sneeuw. 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 1740: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
  • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
  • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
  • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
  • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
  • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of death July 11, 1775

• The temperature on July 11, 1775 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: 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 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 20 » The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
  • October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
  • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1774 » Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (b. 1715)
• 1775 » Simon Boerum, American farmer and politician (b. 1724)
• 1797 » Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (b. 1740)
• 1806 » James Smith, Irish-American lawyer and politician (b. 1719)
• 1825 » Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (b. 1744)
• 1844 » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (b. 1800)