Swartz/Rand Family Tree » Elizabeth FITZWALTER (1430-1485)

Christening day July 28, 1430

• Gravin Jacoba (Beiers Huis) was from 1417 till 1433 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1430: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 10 » Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.
  • March 29 » The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
  • May 23 » Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.
  • August 15 » Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.

Day of marriage August 6, 1877

• The temperature on August 6, 1877 was about 22.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
  • May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
  • May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
  • May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
  • June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • December 10 » Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

Day of death August 26, 1485

• Graaf Maximiliaan (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1482 till 1494 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1485: Source: Wikipedia
  • August 22 » The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
  • October 30 » King Henry VII of England is crowned, beginning the Tudor reign.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1399 » Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1333)
• 1462 » Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
• 1486 » Ernest, Elector of Saxony (b. 1441)
• 1500 » Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1449)
• 1551 » Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
• 1572 » Petrus Ramus, French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)