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Christening day December 11, 1791

• The temperature on December 11, 1791 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer 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)
• In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
  • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
  • August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
  • August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
  • September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
  • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

Day of marriage February 1, 1816

• The temperature on February 1, 1816 was about -4 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1816: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
  • February 20 » Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
  • July 27 » Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
  • August 5 » The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
  • September 15 » HMSWhiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
  • December 11 » Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.

Day of death April 4, 1865

• The temperature on April 4, 1865 was about 9.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
  • April 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » John McLean, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Postmaster General (b. 1785)
• 1863 » Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
• 1864 » Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American commander and paleontologist (b. 1808)
• 1870 » Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
• 1874 » Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
• 1875 » Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (b. 1837)