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Christening day January 1, 1787

• The temperature on January 1, 1787 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
  • May 25 » After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
  • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
  • July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
  • October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
  • December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Day of marriage May 14, 1831

• The temperature on May 14, 1831 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt bui. 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 1831: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • March 29 » Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
  • April 12 » Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
  • July 4 » Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.
  • August 29 » Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
  • September 8 » November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection.
  • November 11 » In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

Day of death November 20, 1869

• The temperature on November 20, 1869 was about 1.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
  • April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.

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• 1856 » Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
• 1864 » Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
• 1866 » Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1880 » Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1882 » Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
• 1886 » William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)