Van Lerberghe genealogy » Joannes DECLERCK (1695-1775)

Christening day February 9, 1695

• 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 1695: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 27 » Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
  • August 15 » French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
  • September 7 » Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
  • November 20 » Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho - an event nowadays commemorated in Black Awareness Day.

Day of marriage January 9, 1723

• The temperature on January 9, 1723 was about 0 °C. 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 1723: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 26 » After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
  • August 17 » Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
  • September 14 » Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.

Day of death April 10, 1775

• The temperature on April 10, 1775 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 18 » American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
  • April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
  • July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
  • August 23 » American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
  • December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Day of burial April 12, 1775

• The temperature on April 12, 1775 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 3 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • July 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
  • October 27 » King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
  • November 13 » American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.
  • December 9 » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1756 » Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)
• 1760 » Jean Lebeuf, French historian and author (b. 1687)
• 1786 » John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1723)
• 1806 » Horatio Gates, English-American general (b. 1727)
• 1813 » Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
• 1823 » Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (b. 1757)