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Christening day June 23, 1782

• The temperature on June 23, 1782 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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 1782: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
  • March 27 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • May 6 » Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
  • July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
  • September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
  • December 16 » British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.

Day of marriage May 25, 1806

• The temperature on May 25, 1806 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  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 1806: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes a British colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.
  • March 23 » After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
  • March 29 » Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
  • October 9 » Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
  • October 27 » The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
  • December 26 » Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.

Day of death March 26, 1867

• The temperature on March 26, 1867 was about 13.9 °C. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
  • February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
  • December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » John Addison Thomas, American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1811)
• 1862 » Uriah P. Levy, American commander (b. 1792)
• 1881 » Roman Sanguszko, Polish general and activist (b. 1800)
• 1885 » Anson Stager, American general and businessman, co-founded Western Union (b. 1825)
• 1888 » Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
• 1892 » Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (b. 1819)