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Christening day January 6, 1788

• The temperature on January 6, 1788 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: 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 1788: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.
  • February 6 » Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • May 8 » King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.
  • May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
  • June 7 » French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
  • June 21 » New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

Day of marriage September 6, 1827

• The temperature on September 6, 1827 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1827: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 7 » Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
  • March 7 » Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
  • March 15 » University of Toronto is founded.
  • July 4 » Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
  • August 22 » José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
  • October 17 » Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Milan.

Day of death October 5, 1867

• The temperature on October 5, 1867 was about 9.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
  • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.

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• 1827 » William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)