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Christening day March 27, 1791

• The temperature on March 27, 1791 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
  • March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
  • 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.
  • September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
  • December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
  • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

Day of marriage February 21, 1835

• The temperature on February 21, 1835 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. 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 1835: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
  • February 14 » The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
  • February 15 » Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect.
  • September 15 » HMSBeagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
  • November 24 » The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
  • December 28 » Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.

Day of death February 17, 1871

• The temperature on February 17, 1871 was about 6.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
  • March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
  • May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
  • September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
  • October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
  • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

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• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)