Tripping down the Basse/Bass Past » Mary Durham (1685-1740)

Christening day June 5, 1689

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1689: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 12 » The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
  • April 18 » Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
  • August 21 » The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
  • August 27 » The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
  • October 26 » General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he died of the disease himself soon after.
  • December 16 » Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.

Day of marriage August 29, 1701

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1701: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 18 » Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
  • May 23 » After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
  • July 9 » A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
  • July 19 » Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
  • August 4 » Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
  • October 9 » The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.

Day of death November 21, 1740

• The temperature on November 21, 1740 was about 4.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen. 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 1740: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
  • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
  • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
  • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
  • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
  • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1639 » Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (b. 1583)
• 1652 » Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
• 1695 » Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (b. 1659)
• 1775 » John Hill, English botanist and author (b. 1719)
• 1782 » Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (b. 1709)
• 1811 » Heinrich von Kleist, German poet and author (b. 1777)