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    • The temperature on June 25, 1787 was about 17.0 °C. There was 154 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
      • 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.
      • February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
      • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
      • August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      • September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
      • October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
    • The temperature on July 11, 1787 was about 14.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
      • 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.
      • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
      • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
      • September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
      • September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
      • December 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
    • The temperature on November 27, 1812 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: zwaar mist. 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 1812: Source: Wikipedia
      • April 6 » British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
      • May 11 » Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
      • June 18 » The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.
      • June 23 » War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
      • September 4 » War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
      • September 15 » War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
    

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    Irene Jolanda van der Meulen, "Family tree Ype Ypes (waaronder van der Meulen)", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-ype-ypes/I3877.php : accessed January 29, 2026), "Jan van Gorkum (Gercken, Gorcum) (1787-1812)".