February 1 » French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
Day of marriage October 4, 1817
The temperature on October 4, 1817 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
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De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
February 8 » Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
June 5 » The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
July 4 » In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
October 30 » Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
December 10 » Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
Day of death March 14, 1867
The temperature on March 14, 1867 was about -1.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
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