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Day of marriage April 23, 1735

• The temperature on April 23, 1735 was about 10.0 °C. There was 29 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. 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 1735: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
  • March 10 » An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
  • July 11 » Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
  • August 5 » Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

Day of death January 17, 1786

• The temperature on January 17, 1786 was about 1.0 °C. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
  • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
  • August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
  • November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
  • November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
  • December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1718 » Benjamin Church, American colonel (b. 1639)
• 1737 » Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
• 1738 » Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)
• 1751 » Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1671)
• 1826 » Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish-French composer (b. 1806)
• 1834 » Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1762)