Stamboom van Jan en Elke Vercauteren » Anna Maria Callens (1701-????)

Birthday April 9, 1701

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1701: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 9 » Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three year occupation.
  • May 23 » After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
  • July 9 » A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
  • July 19 » Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
  • July 24 » Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
  • September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1649 » James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire († 1685)
• 1654 » Samuel Fritz, Czech Jesuit missionary to South America (d. 1725?)
• 1680 » Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright († 1754)
• 1686 » James Craggs the Younger, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department († 1721)
• 1691 » Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic († 1761)
• 1717 » Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian organist, composer, and educator († 1750)