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Christening day February 8, 1789

• The temperature on February 8, 1789 was about 3.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly 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
  • February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
  • April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
  • July 9 » In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
  • July 11 » Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
  • July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
  • October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

Day of marriage December 11, 1808

• The temperature on December 11, 1808 was about 5.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1808: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 2 » The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
  • July 28 » Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
  • September 14 » Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.
  • November 23 » French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
  • December 20 » Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
  • December 20 » The original Garden Theatre in London is destroyed by a fire, along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.

Day of death October 23, 1860

• The temperature on October 23, 1860 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• In the year 1860: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • March 17 » The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars.
  • April 3 » The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
  • May 18 » Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
  • June 30 » The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
  • October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
  • December 26 » The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
• 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
• 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)