Family tree Nieuwenhuizen-Van Ginkel en De Kruijf-Grootendorst » 2. Marretje Pieters / Merretje Meijers (1760-1825)

Christening day May 4, 1760

• The temperature on May 4, 1760 was about 8.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: regen geheel 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 1760: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 20 » The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
  • July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
  • October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
  • October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
  • October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
  • November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.

Day of marriage March 30, 1783

• The temperature on March 30, 1783 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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 1783: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
  • February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
  • April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
  • June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
  • November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
  • December 4 » At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.

Day of death June 11, 1825

• The temperature on June 11, 1825 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. 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 year 1825: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 4 » The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
  • February 9 » After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
  • March 2 » Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
  • June 11 » The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
  • September 27 » The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
  • November 26 » At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1796 » Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (b. 1720)
• 1847 » John Franklin, English admiral and politician (b. 1786)
• 1852 » Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
• 1859 » Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (b. 1773)
• 1879 » William, Prince of Orange (b. 1840)
• 1882 » Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (b. 1804)