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Christening day September 7, 1788

• The temperature on September 7, 1788 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. 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
  • February 9 » The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
  • March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
  • March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
  • May 8 » King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.
  • May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
  • July 25 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

Day of marriage May 1, 1819

• The temperature on May 1, 1819 was about 17.0 °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 1819: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 6 » Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
  • February 19 » British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
  • February 22 » By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
  • March 15 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel is adjudged the winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences for his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", which verifies the Fresnel integrals, accounts for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishes Newton's initial objection to the wave theory of light.
  • May 22 » SSSavannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
  • June 16 » A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6m high, 6km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80km, that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").

Day of death November 13, 1861

• The temperature on November 13, 1861 was about 9.4 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• 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 year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 21 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
  • February 18 » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
  • June 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
  • June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
  • July 21 » American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
  • November 7 » The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Ignacio Comonfort, Mexican soldier and politician. President 1855-1858 (b. 1812)
• 1867 » Adolphe Napoléon Didron, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1806)
• 1868 » Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1792)
• 1883 » J. Marion Sims, American physician and gynecologist (b. 1813)
• 1903 » Camille Pissarro, Virgin Islander-French painter (b. 1830)