Family tree Vanoplynes » Petrus Anselmus Staelens (1711-1792)

Day of marriage May 6, 1766

• The temperature on May 6, 1766 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw. 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
  • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
  • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
  • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
  • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
  • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Day of death November 18, 1792

• The temperature on November 18, 1792 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: zeer 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
  • April 2 » The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
  • April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
  • August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
  • September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
  • September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1785 » Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1725)
• 1797 » Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
• 1804 » Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (b. 1733)
• 1814 » William Jessop, English engineer (b. 1745)
• 1830 » Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748)
• 1841 » Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (b. 1785)