Family tree Van Willigen » Arie van Haaften (1793-1878)

Christening day March 17, 1793

• The temperature on March 17, 1793 was about 4.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 10 » French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
  • July 13 » Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
  • September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
  • October 16 » French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
  • November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
  • December 18 » Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMSLutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.

Day of marriage October 2, 1817

• The temperature on October 2, 1817 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: winderig zeer half bewolkt bui. Source: KNMI
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  De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
• In the year 1817: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
  • January 24 » Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
  • February 8 » Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
  • April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
  • June 12 » The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
  • October 17 » The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.

Day of death March 23, 1878

• The temperature on March 23, 1878 was about 3.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
  • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

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• 1842 » Stendhal, French novelist (b. 1783)
• 1862 » Manuel Robles Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president, 1858–1859 (b. 1817)
• 1883 » Arthur Macalister, Scottish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Queensland (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Henry C. Lord, American businessman (b. 1824)
• 1910 » Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820)
• 1914 » Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese saint (b. 1832)