Eijsermans family tree » Maria Anna Wouters (1730-1779)

Day of marriage May 19, 1765

• The temperature on May 19, 1765 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
  • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
  • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
  • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
  • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
  • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

Day of death October 25, 1779

• The temperature on October 25, 1779 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1779: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
  • May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
  • June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
  • July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
  • August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1733 » Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667)
• 1757 » Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (b. 1672)
• 1760 » George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
• 1806 » Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (b. 1750)
• 1826 » Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (b. 1745)
• 1833 » Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (b. 1789)