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Christening day May 13, 1792

• The temperature on May 13, 1792 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
  • March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
  • 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.
  • April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
  • October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

Day of marriage September 9, 1812

• The temperature on September 9, 1812 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: 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 1812: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 10 » The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
  • March 16 » The Siege of Badajoz begins: British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat the French garrison during the Peninsular War.
  • March 26 » A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
  • April 6 » British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
  • September 5 » War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
  • October 9 » War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMSDetroit and HMSCaledonia.

Day of death January 15, 1860

• The temperature on January 15, 1860 was about 4.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • January 1 » The first Polish stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.
  • 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.
  • April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
  • June 30 » The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
  • September 20 » The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1780)
• 1864 » Isaac Nathan, English-Australian composer and journalist (b. 1792)
• 1866 » Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter (b. 1798)
• 1876 » Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)