Family tree Willemse » Susanna van Hemert (1697-1754)

Christening day March 24, 1697

• 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 1697: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 26 » Safavid government troops take control of Basra
  • September 5 » War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
  • September 11 » Battle of Zenta: a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history.
  • September 20 » The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
  • November 9 » Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
  • December 2 » St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated in London.

Day of marriage June 6, 1717

• The temperature on June 6, 1717 was about 12.0 °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 1717: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 4 » The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
  • March 2 » The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
  • March 31 » A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
  • June 24 » The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).
  • July 17 » King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
  • August 22 » Spanish troops land on Sardinia.

Day of death August 24, 1754

• The temperature on August 24, 1754 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: mist 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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1754: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
  • May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
  • July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1759 » Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet and soldier (b. 1715)
• 1770 » Thomas Chatterton, English poet and prodigy (b. 1752)
• 1779 » Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek monk and saint (b. 1714)
• 1798 » Thomas Alcock, English priest and author (b. 1709)
• 1804 » Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (b. 1760)
• 1818 » James Carr, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)