Family tree Jacobs » Geessien Geesjen Geerdts (1672-1764)

Day of marriage September 25, 1701

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1701: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 18 » Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
  • May 23 » After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
  • July 24 » Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
  • August 4 » Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
  • September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
  • October 9 » The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.

Day of death October 10, 1764

• The temperature on October 10, 1764 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: omtrent helder 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
  • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
  • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
  • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Day of burial October 16, 1764

• The temperature on October 16, 1764 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
  • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
  • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
  • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1725 » Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician, Governor of New France (b. 1643)
• 1747 » John Potter, English archbishop and academic (b. 1674)
• 1759 » Granville Elliott, English general (b. 1713)
• 1765 » Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
• 1795 » Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (b. 1714)
• 1800 » Gabriel Prosser, American rebel leader (b. 1776)