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Christening day March 28, 1773

• The temperature on March 28, 1773 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken 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 1 » The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
  • 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 12 » America's first insane asylum opens.

Day of marriage May 19, 1793

• The temperature on May 19, 1793 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 13 » Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
  • August 12 » The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
  • September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
  • October 16 » French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
  • December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
  • December 26 » Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.

Day of death November 29, 1842

• The temperature on November 29, 1842 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  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 1842: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
  • March 28 » First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
  • August 1 » The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • August 9 » The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
  • August 14 » American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
  • November 26 » The University of Notre Dame is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1797 » Samuel Langdon, American pastor, theologian, and academic (b. 1723)
• 1830 » John Maurice Hauke, Polish general (b. 1775)
• 1846 » Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1778)
• 1847 » Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802)
• 1872 » Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1780)
• 1883 » Hiệp Hòa, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1847)