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Day of marriage October 25, 1713

• The temperature on October 25, 1713 was about 12.0 °C. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1713: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 1 » The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
  • March 1 » The siege and destruction of Fort Neoheroka begins during the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, effectively opening up the colony's interior to European colonization.
  • March 22 » The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
  • April 11 » War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
  • April 19 » With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa was not born until 1717.
  • June 23 » The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.

Day of death February 10, 1774

• The temperature on February 10, 1774 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken geheel betrokken. 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 1774: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
  • June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
  • June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
  • July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
  • August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
  • September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.

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• 1755 » Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (b. 1689)
• 1782 » Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (b. 1702)
• 1829 » Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
• 1837 » Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (b. 1799)
• 1854 » José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general. President three times (1844–1854) (b. 1792)
• 1857 » David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770)