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Christening day March 7, 1779

• The temperature on March 7, 1779 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder dampig. 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 1779: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
  • June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
  • August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
  • September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

Day of marriage November 29, 1814

• The temperature on November 29, 1814 was about 5.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1814: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 1 » Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
  • February 17 » War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormant.
  • April 11 » The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
  • July 5 » War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa: American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
  • July 24 » War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
  • December 24 » Representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States sign the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.

Day of death January 22, 1865

• The temperature on January 22, 1865 was about -0.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 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)
• 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1840 » Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1850 » Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 » Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)