Stambomen Jan en Cornelis Diepenhorst » Leentje Franken "Lena" van Elk (1768-1851)

Christening day March 13, 1768

• The temperature on March 13, 1768 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: donker 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 1768: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 29 » Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
  • April 4 » In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
  • May 10 » Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
  • June 21 » James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
  • August 26 » Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMSEndeavour.
  • December 10 » The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

Day of marriage August 22, 1790

• The temperature on August 22, 1790 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt bui winderig. 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 1790: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
  • May 31 » The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
  • September 25 » Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
  • November 1 » Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
  • December 26 » Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
  • December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

Day of death February 19, 1851

• The temperature on February 19, 1851 was about 8.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 1851: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
  • August 12 » Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
  • September 11 » Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
  • November 14 » Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
  • December 8 » Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.
  • December 9 » The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1799 » Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (b. 1733)
• 1806 » Elizabeth Carter, English poet and translator (b. 1717)
• 1837 » Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (b. 1813)
• 1837 » Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1756)
• 1887 » Multatuli, Dutch-German author and civil servant (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)