Stephenson Family Tree » Anna Maria Kapfenstein (1738-1739)

Christening day April 26, 1738

• The temperature on April 26, 1738 was about 9.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: regen en zeer betrokken. 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 1738: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 15 » Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
  • April 18 » Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
  • May 24 » John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
  • May 25 » A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
  • July 15 » Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
  • July 20 » Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.

Day of death June 3, 1739

• The temperature on June 3, 1739 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: helder. 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 1739: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
  • February 23 » At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
  • March 22 » Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
  • May 16 » The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army.
  • September 18 » The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
  • October 3 » The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1649 » Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
• 1657 » William Harvey, English physician and academic (b. 1578)
• 1659 » Morgan Llwyd, Welsh minister and poet (b. 1619)
• 1665 » Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Portland, English noble (b. 1639)
• 1780 » Thomas Hutchinson, American businessman and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1711)
• 1826 » Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (b. 1766)