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Christening day April 14, 1775

• The temperature on April 14, 1775 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  • June 14 » American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
  • August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
  • October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
  • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

Day of marriage August 20, 1812

• The temperature on August 20, 1812 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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 1812: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 26 » A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
  • April 6 » British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
  • May 18 » John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
  • June 4 » Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
  • September 7 » French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
  • October 13 » War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States forces.

Day of death October 5, 1861

• The temperature on October 5, 1861 was about 11.8 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 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).
• 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 year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 4 » American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
  • March 17 » The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
  • May 13 » Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
  • May 29 » The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
  • June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
  • October 1 » Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day

Source: Wikipedia

• 1827 » William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)