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Christening day September 9, 1781

• The temperature on September 9, 1781 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1781: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
  • March 13 » William Herschel discovers Uranus.
  • March 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
  • September 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
  • October 20 » The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.
  • November 29 » The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

Day of marriage April 27, 1806

• The temperature on April 27, 1806 was about 6.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1806: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
  • January 10 » Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
  • January 18 » Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.
  • February 6 » Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
  • March 29 » Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
  • October 17 » Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.

Day of death February 18, 1865

• The temperature on February 18, 1865 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
  • June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
  • July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
  • November 26 » Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
• 1873 » Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)
• 1880 » Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
• 1906 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (b. 1830)