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Christening day November 25, 1787

• The temperature on November 25, 1787 was about 2.0 °C. 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
  • January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
  • September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
  • October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
  • December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • December 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

Day of marriage October 8, 1809

• The temperature on October 8, 1809 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: winderig omtrent helder. 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.
  • March 28 » Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.
  • April 11 » An incomplete British victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Basque Roads results in the court-martial of James, Lord Gambier.
  • April 20 » Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
  • May 5 » The Swiss canton of Aargau allows citizenship to Jews.
  • September 17 » Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War; the territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.

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.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • 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.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
  • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.

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)