FutureHistory » Guilielmus "Guilhelmus" (Guilielmus "Guilhelmus") Verelst (1734-1792)

Day of marriage August 8, 1762

• The temperature on August 8, 1762 was about 18.0 °C. There was 70 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. 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 1762: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 4 » Great Britain declares war on Spain, thus entering the Seven Years' War.
  • March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
  • May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
  • June 24 » Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
  • July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
  • October 6 » Seven Years' War: The British Capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

Day of death July 16, 1792

• The temperature on July 16, 1792 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
  • April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
  • September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
  • September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
  • October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
  • December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.

Source: Wikipedia

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