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Day of marriage January 22, 1732

• The temperature on January 22, 1732 was about 0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel 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 1732: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 9 » James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
  • September 16 » In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two thirds of its inhabitants.
  • November 29 » The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern Italy.
  • December 7 » The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.

Day of death August 2, 1776

• The temperature on August 2, 1776 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
  • September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
  • November 16 » American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
  • December 26 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)