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Christening day April 3, 1743

• The temperature on April 3, 1743 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen hagel 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 1743: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 12 » Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • May 19 » Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
  • June 27 » In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
  • September 13 » Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.

Day of marriage December 16, 1776

• The temperature on December 16, 1776 was about 4.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
  • June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
  • September 21 » Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
  • December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

Day of death February 14, 1785

• The temperature on February 14, 1785 was about -0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: zeer 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 1785: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
  • January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
  • January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
  • November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.

Day of burial March 7, 1740

• The temperature on March 7, 1740 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: 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 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

• 1744 » John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (b. 1682)
• 1779 » James Cook, English captain, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1728)
• 1780 » William Blackstone, English jurist and politician (b. 1723)
• 1782 » Singu Min, Burmese king (b. 1756)
• 1808 » John Dickinson, American lawyer and politician 5th Governor of Delaware (b. 1732)
• 1831 » Vicente Guerrero, Mexican general and politician, 2nd President of Mexico (b. 1782)