Family tree Van Rhijn » Willem van Dam (1690-1778)
Personal data Willem van Dam
- He was born on March 1, 1690 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
- Profession: heer van Pijlsweerd, raad, schepen en ontvanger Ams.
- He died on March 11, 1778 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland, he was 88 years old.
- A child of Willem van Dam and Bregitta Graafland
Household of Willem van Dam
He is married to Elisabeth Pitt.
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Historical events
Birthday March 1, 1690
- 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 1690: Source: Wikipedia
- February 3 » The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
- February 15 » Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
- June 14 » King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.
- July 1 » Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
- August 24 » Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).
- September 25 » Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
Day of death March 11, 1778
- The temperature on March 11, 1778 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
- February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
- February 23 » American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
- June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
- July 28 » Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
- August 3 » The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
Same birth/death day
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- 1657 » Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian and author († 1740)
- 1683 » Tsangyang Gyatso, sixth Dalai Lama († 1706)
- 1683 » Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent († 1737)
- 1732 » William Cushing, American lawyer and judge († 1810)
- 1722 » John Toland, Irish philosopher and theorist (b. 1670)
- 1759 » John Forbes, Scottish general (b. 1710)
- 1820 » Benjamin West, American-English painter and academic (b. 1738)
- 1851 » George McDuffie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
- 1851 » Marie Louise Coidavid, Queen of Haiti (b. 1778)
- 1854 » Willard Richards, American journalist and religious leader (b. 1804)
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Gert Jan van Rhijn, "Family tree Van Rhijn", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-rhijn/I3089.php : accessed November 10, 2024), "Willem van Dam (1690-1778)".