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Christening day September 21, 1749

• The temperature on September 21, 1749 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1749: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
  • January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
  • January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
  • May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
  • June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

Day of marriage August 21, 1791

• The temperature on August 21, 1791 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent 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)
• In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
  • May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
  • June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
  • August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
  • September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
  • December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

Day of death April 7, 1826

• The temperature on April 7, 1826 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken winderig. Source: KNMI
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  De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
• In the year 1826: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
  • February 11 » University College London is founded as University of London.
  • February 24 » The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
  • April 1 » Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine".
  • April 10 » The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
  • May 22 » HMSBeagle departs on its first voyage.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1823 » Jacques Charles, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746)
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• 1836 » William Godwin, English journalist and author (b. 1756)
• 1849 » Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777)