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Christening day July 3, 1791

• The temperature on July 3, 1791 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. 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 1791: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
  • July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
  • August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
  • August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
  • September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
  • October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

Day of marriage June 3, 1810

• The temperature on June 3, 1810 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: helder winderig. 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 1810: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 25 » May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence.
  • July 9 » Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
  • August 21 » Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
  • August 28 » Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
  • September 8 » The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
  • September 18 » First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.

Day of death May 13, 1865

• The temperature on May 13, 1865 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. 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.
  • January 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
  • January 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
  • November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1832 » Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (b. 1769)
• 1835 » John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)