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Christening day January 25, 1789

• The temperature on January 25, 1789 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-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 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 21 » George Washington's reception at Trenton is hosted by the Ladies of Trenton as he journeys to New York City for his first inauguration.
  • July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
  • September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
  • September 15 » The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
  • September 22 » Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
  • November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

Day of marriage May 8, 1813

• The temperature on May 8, 1813 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. 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 1813: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 31 » In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
  • June 1 » Capture of USS Chesapeake.
  • August 30 » Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
  • September 10 » The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
  • November 11 » War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
  • December 30 » War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.

Day of death December 6, 1862

• The temperature on December 6, 1862 was about 9.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
  • April 29 » American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
  • July 4 » Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
  • September 4 » American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
  • September 8 » Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
  • September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)