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Christening day December 1, 1793

• The temperature on December 1, 1793 was about 7.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 13 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
  • March 1 » French Revolutionary War: Battle of Aldenhoven during the Flanders Campaign.
  • August 8 » The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
  • August 16 » French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
  • November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
  • December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.

Day of marriage April 22, 1852

• The temperature on April 22, 1852 was about 11.0 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 43%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1852: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The United Kingdom signs the Sand River Convention with the South African Republic.
  • March 1 » Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  • March 20 » Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
  • September 19 » Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
  • November 4 » Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
  • December 2 » Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.

Day of death July 7, 1871

• The temperature on July 7, 1871 was about 24.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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.
  • January 19 » Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
  • March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
  • July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
  • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
  • October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » William Mulready, Irish genre painter (b. 1786)
• 1865 » David Herold (b. 1842)
• 1865 » George Atzerodt (b. 1833)
• 1865 » Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
• 1865 » Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
• 1890 » Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (b. 1814)