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Birthday December 26, 1792

• The temperature on December 26, 1792 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: 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)
• In the year 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
  • February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
  • April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
  • September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
  • September 11 » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
  • October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1769 » Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet († 1860)
• 1780 » Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author († 1872)
• 1782 » Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and saint († 1867)
• 1785 » Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium († 1871)
• 1791 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine († 1871)
• 1803 » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author († 1882)