West-Europese adel » Ernestine Eleonore van Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg (1731-1791)

Day of marriage April 9, 1776

• The temperature on April 9, 1776 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » General George Washington hoists the first United States flag; the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill.
  • May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
  • June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
  • June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
  • October 11 » American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
  • December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

Day of death June 5, 1791

• The temperature on June 5, 1791 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: 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 1791: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
  • March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
  • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
  • August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
  • September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
  • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1738 » Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor and theologian (b. 1659)
• 1740 » Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, English politician and courtier (b. 1671)
• 1791 » Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (b. 1718)
• 1816 » Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1741)
• 1825 » Odysseas Androutsos, Greek soldier (b. 1788)
• 1826 » Carl Maria von Weber, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1786)