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Christening day December 25, 1791

• The temperature on December 25, 1791 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-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 1791: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
  • January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
  • 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).
  • May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
  • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

Day of marriage July 24, 1813

• The temperature on July 24, 1813 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen. 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
  • January 28 » Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
  • April 27 » War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
  • May 27 » War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
  • June 24 » Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
  • July 23 » Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
  • August 26 » War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).

Day of death December 14, 1863

• The temperature on December 14, 1863 was about 9.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
  • May 21 » American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
  • July 19 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
  • October 15 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
  • November 17 » American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege.
  • November 25 » American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1842 » Ben Crack-O, king of several tribes around Cape Palmas
• 1860 » George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1861 » Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1865 » Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
• 1878 » Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)