The temperature on February 17, 1741 was about 5.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
July 31 » Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
Day of death December 19, 1780
The temperature on December 19, 1780 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
June 23 » American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
August 22 » James Cook's ship HMSResolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
October 16 » American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
November 5 » French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Jan Cees Lelieveldt, "Family tree Lelieveldt/Eldridge", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-lelieveldt-eldridge/I222403904395.php : accessed June 23, 2024), "Ijsbrand Jacobsz Konijn (1741-1780)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.