Family tree van Vinken (vader) en van Heezik (moeder) » Seger Zeger Seeger Rochuszoon (Seger, Zeger, Seeger Rochuszoon) Holleman (1723-1776)

Day of marriage September 3, 1758

• The temperature on September 3, 1758 was about 18.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer 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)
• 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 1758: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 12 » French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences.
  • June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
  • July 8 » French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
  • July 26 » French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
  • December 13 » The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
  • December 25 » Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.

Day of death December 13, 1776

• The temperature on December 13, 1776 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 17 » American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
  • July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
  • July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
  • August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
  • August 27 » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
  • September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1754 » Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696)
• 1758 » Noël Doiron, Canadian Acadia leader (b. 1684)
• 1769 » Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715)
• 1783 » Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717)
• 1784 » Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
• 1814 » Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)