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Christening day January 11, 1778

• The temperature on January 11, 1778 was about -1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. 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 1778: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 9 » Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  • July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
  • July 10 » American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  • July 27 » American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
  • July 28 » Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
  • November 26 » In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

Day of marriage July 20, 1828

• The temperature on July 20, 1828 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: half bewolkt regen storm(achtig). 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.
  • August 27 » Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
  • November 5 » Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
  • November 16 » Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.
  • 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 November 14, 1864

• The temperature on November 14, 1864 was about 9.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 22 » The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
  • April 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
  • May 21 » The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
  • June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
  • June 12 » American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1831 » Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1770)
• 1831 » Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder (b. 1757)
• 1832 » Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American farmer and politician (b. 1737)
• 1844 » John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher (b. 1780)
• 1864 » Franz Müller, German tailor and murderer (b. 1840)
• 1866 » Miguel I of Portugal (b. 1802)