The temperature on April 8, 1791 was about 8.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
Christening day April 12, 1791
The temperature on April 12, 1791 was about 10.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly east. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
Day of marriage March 13, 1816
The temperature on March 13, 1816 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt . 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).
January 9 » Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
February 20 » Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
April 14 » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
May 2 » Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
September 5 » Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
December 11 » Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
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