The Brown Tree » Admiral Sir Francis William AUSTEN (1774-1865)
Personal data Admiral Sir Francis William AUSTEN
Sources 1, 2Source 1- He was born on April 23, 1774 in Steventon, Hampshire.
- He died on August 10, 1865 in Portsdown Lodge, Hampshire, England, he was 91 years old.
- A child of George AUSTEN and Cassandra LEIGH
Household of Admiral Sir Francis William AUSTEN
(1) He had a relationship with Martha LLOYD.
(2) He is married to Mary GIBSON.
They got married on June 22, 1806 at St Laurence, Ramsgate, he was 32 years old.
Child(ren):
- Francis William AUSTEN 1809-1858
- Henry Edgar AUSTEN 1811-1854
- George AUSTEN 1812-????
- George AUSTEN 1812-1903
- Cassandra Eliza AUSTEN 1814-1849
- Capt. Herbert Grey AUSTEN 1815-1888
- Elizabeth AUSTEN 1817-1830
- Catherine Ann AUSTEN 1818-1877
- Edward Thomas AUSTEN 1820-1908
- Frances Sophia AUSTEN 1821-1904
- Cholmeley AUSTEN 1823-1824
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Historical events
Birthday April 23, 1774
- The temperature on April 23, 1774 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: geheel 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 1774: Source: Wikipedia
- January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
- May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
- June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
Day of marriage June 22, 1806
- The temperature on June 22, 1806 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: winderig omtrent betrokken bui. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1806: Source: Wikipedia
- January 1 » The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
- July 18 » A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
- August 13 » Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
- October 14 » War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
- October 30 » War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.
- December 26 » Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
Day of death August 10, 1865
- The temperature on August 10, 1865 was about 18.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
- April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
- May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
- May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
- August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
- December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
Same birth/death day
- 1744 » Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön († 1770)
- 1748 » Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist († 1794)
- 1791 » James Buchanan, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of the United States († 1868)
- 1792 » Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist († 1882)
- 1794 » Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar and author († 1856)
- 1805 » Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher and academic († 1879)
- 1839 » Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English lawyer and politician (b. 1758)
- 1862 » Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
- 1875 » Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (b. 1808)
- 1889 » Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (b. 1831)
- 1890 » John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b. 1844)
- 1896 » Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (b. 1848)
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