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Day of marriage January 25, 1728

• The temperature on January 25, 1728 was about 6.0 °C. There was 51 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: regen. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1728: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 28 » Peshwa Bajirao I of the Maratha Empire defeats Asaf Jah I in the Battle of Palkhed.
  • August 29 » The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.

Day of death September 4, 1776

• The temperature on September 4, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • August 27 » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
  • December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
  • December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.

Day of burial September 10, 1776

• The temperature on September 10, 1776 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 17 » American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
  • May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • August 31 » William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
  • November 16 » American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
  • December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1767 » Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1725)
• 1780 » John Fielding, English lawyer and judge (b. 1721)
• 1784 » César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (b. 1714)
• 1794 » John Hely-Hutchinson, Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1724)
• 1804 » Richard Somers, American lieutenant (b. 1778)
• 1820 » Timothy Brown, English banker and merchant (b. 1743/4)