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Christening day March 18, 1792

• The temperature on March 18, 1792 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. 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 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
  • May 15 » War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
  • June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
  • July 25 » The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
  • September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

Day of marriage May 23, 1818

• The temperature on May 23, 1818 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
  • March 30 » Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
  • April 5 » In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
  • April 19 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
  • September 7 » Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
  • December 3 » Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.

Day of death July 24, 1871

• The temperature on July 24, 1871 was about 19.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
  • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
  • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
  • March 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
  • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1891 » Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (b. 1827)
• 1908 » Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (b. 1867)
• 1910 » Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1841)
• 1927 » Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)