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Christening day January 15, 1792

• The temperature on January 15, 1792 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 2 » The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
  • June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
  • June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  • August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
  • September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
  • October 12 » The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.

Day of marriage May 16, 1818

• The temperature on May 16, 1818 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 15 » A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
  • March 16 » In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
  • April 19 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
  • April 20 » The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
  • July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
  • October 20 » The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

Day of death July 3, 1887

• The temperature on July 3, 1887 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
  • June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
  • July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
  • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
  • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
  • November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Clay Allison, American rancher (b. 1841)
• 1888 » Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1822)
• 1904 » Édouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
• 1904 » Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and playwright (b. 1860)
• 1908 » Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)