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Christening day November 8, 1778

• The temperature on November 8, 1778 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • February 9 » Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
  • July 28 » Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
  • November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
  • December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

Day of marriage July 16, 1809

• The temperature on July 16, 1809 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: helder windstil. 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 1809: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 3 » The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
  • February 24 » London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
  • March 27 » Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
  • May 25 » Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern-day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.
  • July 28 » Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
  • October 15 » The Viceroy the Río de la Plata, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, opens the port of Buenos Aires to trade with nations other than Spain.

Day of death February 23, 1860

• The temperature on February 23, 1860 was about -4.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• 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).
• In the year 1860: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
  • March 17 » The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars.
  • March 28 » First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
  • April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
  • May 18 » Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
  • October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1821 » John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
• 1848 » John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1855 » Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
• 1859 » Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
• 1897 » Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (b. 1828)