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Christening day March 10, 1787

• The temperature on March 10, 1787 was about 7.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southeast. 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.
  • January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
  • February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
  • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
  • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
  • October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

Day of marriage June 15, 1816

• The temperature on June 15, 1816 was about 12.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. 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 1816: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
  • July 9 » Argentina declares independence from Spain.
  • August 5 » The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
  • August 14 » The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
  • December 11 » Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
  • December 30 » The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.

Day of death March 13, 1863

• The temperature on March 13, 1863 was about 4.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • June 14 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
  • June 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
  • July 4 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Confederate invasion of U.S. territory.
  • July 13 » New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
  • August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
  • November 27 » American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1842 » Henry Shrapnel, English general (b. 1761)
• 1854 » Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
• 1873 » David Swinson Maynard, American physician, lawyer, and businessman (b. 1808)
• 1879 » Adolf Anderssen, German mathematician and chess player (b. 1818)
• 1881 » Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Leland Stanford Jr., American son of Leland Stanford (b. 1868)