Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Michael MOLDENHAUER (1719-1776)

Day of marriage May 11, 1757

• The temperature on May 11, 1757 was about 14.0 °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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1757: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
  • March 14 » Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMSMonarch for breach of the Articles of War.
  • May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
  • May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
  • June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
  • November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.

Day of death January 10, 1776

• The temperature on January 10, 1776 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
  • July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
  • July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
  • September 15 » American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
  • September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
  • December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1754 » Edward Cave, English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (b. 1691)
• 1761 » Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (b. 1711)
• 1778 » Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician (b. 1707)
• 1794 » Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (b. 1754)
• 1811 » Joseph Chénier, French poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1764)
• 1824 » Victor Emmanuel I, duke of Savoy and king of Sardinia (b. 1759)