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Christening day January 17, 1773

• The temperature on January 17, 1773 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: regen 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 1773: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
  • May 10 » The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
  • June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
  • June 17 » Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
  • October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

Day of marriage May 17, 1789

• The temperature on May 17, 1789 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer half bewolkt winderig. 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
  • January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
  • January 30 » Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
  • April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
  • July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
  • September 22 » Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
  • October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

Day of death November 2, 1830

• The temperature on November 2, 1830 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: 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 1830: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.6 million citizens.
  • May 28 » U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.
  • June 12 » Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thiry-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
  • July 13 » The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
  • September 15 » The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
  • September 24 » A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
  • November 27 » Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1807 » Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1730)
• 1834 » Maria Teresa Poniatowska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1760)
• 1846 » Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet and bishop (b. 1782)
• 1852 » Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 » Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)