Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Cornelius Gerardus SMITS (1666-1740)

Personal data Cornelius Gerardus SMITS 


Household of Cornelius Gerardus SMITS

He is married to Margarita Symerel van ESCH.

They got married on February 2, 1692 at Oisterwijk, 4060, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 25 years old.


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Birthday July 28, 1666

  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1666: Source: Wikipedia
    • August 19 » Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
    • September 2 » The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral.
    • September 3 » The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.
    • September 4 » In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
    • September 5 » Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
    • November 28 » At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

Day of marriage February 2, 1692

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1692: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 13 » Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
    • March 1 » Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
    • June 2 » Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty and later hanged.
    • June 7 » Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
    • June 10 » Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries".
    • October 12 » The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province.

Day of death March 2, 1740

  • The temperature on March 2, 1740 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen sneeuw. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.


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