Eijsermans family tree » Marie Elisabeth Petit (1733-1781)

Day of marriage November 4, 1767

• The temperature on November 4, 1767 was about 11.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen 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 1767: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 7 » End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
  • June 17 » Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
  • July 3 » Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
  • July 3 » Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
  • August 26 » Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.
  • October 11 » Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

Day of death September 20, 1781

• The temperature on September 20, 1781 was about 14.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen 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 1781: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 5 » American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
  • March 13 » William Herschel discovers Uranus.
  • March 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
  • September 4 » Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
  • September 8 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
  • October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.

Day of burial September 21, 1781

• The temperature on September 21, 1781 was about 12.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. 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 1781: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 18 » Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
  • April 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
  • August 5 » The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
  • September 4 » Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
  • September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
  • October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1793 » Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (b. 1764)
• 1803 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
• 1815 » Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)