Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Adriaan Willemse Ardon (1736-1775)

Day of marriage May 1, 1757

• The temperature on May 1, 1757 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel 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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1757: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
  • May 6 » Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
  • May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
  • May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
  • June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
  • December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

Day of death June 2, 1775

• The temperature on June 2, 1775 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
  • February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
  • April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
  • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
  • May 31 » American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
  • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
  • June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1701 » Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (b. 1607)
• 1716 » Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1658)
• 1754 » Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (b. 1680)
• 1761 » Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (b. 1685)
• 1785 » Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician and academic (b. 1713)
• 1806 » William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)