Family tree Menting » Maria Reinerse Hokke (1742-1776)

Day of marriage May 7, 1766

• The temperature on May 7, 1766 was about 12.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: donker 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
  • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
  • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
  • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
  • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
  • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Day of death April 25, 1776

• The temperature on April 25, 1776 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. 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
  • January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
  • July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
  • September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
  • September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
  • November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1690 » David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter and educator (b. 1610)
• 1744 » Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1701)
• 1770 » Jean-Antoine Nollet, French minister, physicist, and academic (b. 1700)
• 1800 » William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
• 1840 » Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1781)
• 1873 » Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1783)