Family tree Van der Waal » willem gijsbertz VERMOEN (1732-1781)

Day of marriage November 27, 1757

• The temperature on November 27, 1757 was about 7.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: regen 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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1757: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
  • May 6 » Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
  • May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
  • May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
  • June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
  • December 5 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

Day of death December 14, 1781

• The temperature on December 14, 1781 was about -1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1781: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 18 » Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
  • August 24 » American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
  • September 8 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
  • October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
  • October 20 » The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.
  • November 29 » The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1735 » Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian (b. 1674)
• 1741 » Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (b. 1661)
• 1785 » Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1727)
• 1788 » Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (b. 1714)
• 1788 » Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
• 1799 » George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)