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Christening day January 22, 1792

• The temperature on January 22, 1792 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-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.
  • April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
  • April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
  • April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
  • May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
  • June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Day of marriage November 25, 1815

• The temperature on November 25, 1815 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: betrokken zwaar mist. 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 1815: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 26 » Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
  • March 9 » Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
  • March 16 » Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
  • March 30 » Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
  • June 1 » Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
  • December 25 » The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.

Day of death May 27, 1871

• The temperature on May 27, 1871 was about 17.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 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).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
  • March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
  • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
  • April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
  • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
  • November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)