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Christening day December 13, 1767

• The temperature on December 13, 1767 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. 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 1767: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 7 » End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
  • June 17 » Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
  • July 3 » Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
  • July 3 » Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
  • August 26 » Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.
  • October 11 » Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

Day of marriage October 7, 1788

• The temperature on October 7, 1788 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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 1788: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
  • January 20 » The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
  • January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
  • March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
  • April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
  • June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.

Day of death January 6, 1827

• The temperature on January 6, 1827 was about -7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1827: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 7 » Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
  • April 7 » John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
  • August 22 » José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
  • October 1 » Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
  • October 17 » Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Milan.
  • October 20 » In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1813 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1829 » Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
• 1831 » Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 » Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)
• 1852 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
• 1855 » Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)