Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Jan Gideon JORDAAN (1778-1860)

Christening day January 24, 1779

• The temperature on January 24, 1779 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. 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
  • March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
  • June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
  • July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
  • July 16 » American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
  • September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

Day of marriage May 28, 1801

• The temperature on May 28, 1801 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1801: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
  • February 17 » An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
  • February 27 » Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
  • May 6 » Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMSSpeedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
  • July 11 » French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
  • August 1 » First Barbary War: The American schooner USSEnterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.

Day of death May 19, 1860

• The temperature on May 19, 1860 was about 16.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• In the year 1860: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • March 17 » The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars.
  • April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
  • June 23 » The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
  • September 8 » The steamship PSLady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
  • September 20 » The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
  • December 29 » The launch of HMSWarrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1831 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Estonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1804)
• 1865 » Sengge Rinchen, Mongolian general (b. 1811)
• 1872 » John Baker, English-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1813)
• 1876 » Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)