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Christening day October 28, 1792

• The temperature on October 28, 1792 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
  • January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
  • March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
  • March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
  • August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
  • October 12 » The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.

Day of marriage December 19, 1816

• The temperature on December 19, 1816 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt hagel . 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
  • July 2 » The French frigateMéduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
  • July 9 » Argentina declares independence from Spain.
  • July 27 » Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
  • 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.
  • September 5 » Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
  • December 11 » Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.

Day of death November 29, 1862

• The temperature on November 29, 1862 was about 1.0 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
  • June 5 » As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
  • June 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
  • June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
  • July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
  • October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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• 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)
• 1894 » Juan N. Méndez, Mexican general and interim president, 1876-1877 (b. 1820)