February 2 » Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
June 28 » Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
July 8 » Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.
August 8 » Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
August 28 » Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
September 11 » Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
Day of death May 3, 1774
The temperature on May 3, 1774 was about 15.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: regen weerlicht donder. Source: KNMI
March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: J.A.J. van Geel, "Family tree Van Geel", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-familie-van-geel/I13600.php : accessed May 29, 2024), "Adrianus de MOOR (1709-1774)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.