Family tree Jan op den Brouw (fam. de Witte 1535-1865) » Dirk de Witte (1710-1774)

Christening day October 26, 1710

• The temperature on October 26, 1710 was about 8.0 °C. 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 1710: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 28 » Battle of Helsingborg: 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
  • April 5 » The Statute of Anne receives the royal assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
  • April 10 » The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
  • August 20 » War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
  • October 13 » Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.

Day of marriage April 17, 1735

• The temperature on April 17, 1735 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. 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 1735: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
  • March 10 » An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
  • July 11 » Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
  • August 5 » Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

Day of death January 26, 1774

• The temperature on January 26, 1774 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen sneeuw hagel 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 1774: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
  • June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
  • July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
  • August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
  • September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
  • September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1744 » Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
• 1750 » Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist and academic (b. 1686)
• 1779 » Thomas Hudson, English painter (b. 1701)
• 1795 » Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German harpsichord player and composer (b. 1732)
• 1799 » Gabriel Christie, Scottish general (b. 1722)
• 1823 » Edward Jenner, English physician and immunologist (b. 1749)