Whitworth Tree » Elizabeth Blair Bolling 6 1 16 S (1731-1775)

Day of marriage December 27, 1746

• The temperature on December 27, 1746 was about 8.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: regen 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 1746: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
  • April 16 » The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
  • June 16 » War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
  • October 22 » The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

Day of death April 22, 1775

• The temperature on April 22, 1775 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: zeer 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)
• In the year 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • May 31 » American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
  • June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
  • September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
  • 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.
  • December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1758 » Antoine de Jussieu, French botanist and physician (b. 1686)
• 1778 » James Hargreaves, British inventor (b. 1720)
• 1806 » Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (b. 1763)
• 1821 » Gregory V of Constantinople, Greek patriarch and saint (b. 1746)
• 1833 » Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (b. 1771)
• 1850 » Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798)