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Christening day October 5, 1777

• The temperature on October 5, 1777 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 3 » American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
  • March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
  • April 13 » American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
  • April 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
  • August 22 » British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
  • December 24 » Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

Day of marriage July 28, 1828

• The temperature on July 28, 1828 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: bui half bewolkt. 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 1828: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
  • April 20 » René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter (and the first to return from) Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing.
  • May 19 » U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
  • August 27 » Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
  • October 7 » Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.
  • December 19 » Nullification crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.

Day of death June 20, 1862

• The temperature on June 20, 1862 was about 12.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
  • June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
  • July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
  • August 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
  • December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
  • December 31 » American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1840 » Pierre Claude François Daunou, French historian and politician (b. 1761)
• 1847 » Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (b. 1782)
• 1869 » Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (b. 1835)
• 1870 » Jules de Goncourt, French historian and author (b. 1830)
• 1872 » Élie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
• 1875 » Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (b. 1810)