January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
Christening day April 8, 1776
The temperature on April 8, 1776 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
September 9 » The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
Day of marriage November 2, 1806
The temperature on November 2, 1806 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent betrokken 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).
January 1 » The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
January 9 » Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
January 18 » Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.
June 27 » British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.
October 9 » Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
October 27 » The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
Day of death May 5, 1870
The temperature on May 5, 1870 was about 7.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
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).
January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
April 13 » The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
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