Family tree Terheerd - Buurman » Gerardus / Gart /Wolsing (Gerardus / Gart) Wolsink (1734-1792)

Day of marriage July 13, 1755

• The temperature on July 13, 1755 was about 21.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: geheel betrokken donder regen. 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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1755: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 15 » Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
  • June 16 » French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
  • July 9 » The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
  • August 10 » Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
  • November 1 » In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
  • November 25 » King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

Day of death June 30, 1792

• The temperature on June 30, 1792 was about 16.0 °C. There was 264 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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
  • March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
  • March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
  • April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
  • May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
  • May 21 » A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that kills nearly 15,000 people.
  • October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1704 » John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)
• 1708 » Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1684)
• 1709 » Edward Lhuyd, Welsh botanist, linguist, and geographer (b. 1660)
• 1785 » James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (b. 1696)
• 1796 » Abraham Yates Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1724)
• 1857 » Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1802)