Van Lerberghe genealogy » Gabriël VAN MEENEN (1727-1780)

Day of marriage May 15, 1762

• The temperature on May 15, 1762 was about 20.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: geheel 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1762: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
  • May 5 » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
  • May 22 » Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
  • May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
  • July 17 » Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
  • September 12 » The Sultanate of Sulu ceded Balambangan Island to the British East India Company

Day of death January 14, 1780

• The temperature on January 14, 1780 was about -7 °C. Weather type: omtrent helder mist. 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 1780: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 16 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
  • March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
  • May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
  • September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
  • September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
  • October 16 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1742 » Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (b. 1656)
• 1753 » George Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (b. 1685)
• 1766 » Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
• 1776 » Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1713)
• 1786 » Meshech Weare, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
• 1786 » Michael Arne, English organist and composer (b. 1741)