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The Batavian Republic (Dutch: Bataafse Republiek; French: République Batave) was the successor state to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. It was proclaimed on 19 January 1795 and ended on 5 June 1806, with the accession of Louis Bonaparte to the Dutch throne .
Funerary stela of one of Nero's Corporis Custodes, the imperial Germanic bodyguard.The bodyguard, Indus, was of the Batavian tribe. The Batavi [bäˈt̪äːu̯iː] were an ancient Germanic [1] tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.
The First National Assembly (Dutch: Eerste Nationale Vergadering) was the term between 1796 and 1797 of the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. The First National Assembly was elected in the 1796 Batavian general election. The assembly was responsible for governing the new republic as well as writing a constitution.
The Revolt of the Batavi took place in the Roman province of Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") between AD 69 and 70. It was an uprising against the Roman Empire started by the Batavi, a small but militarily powerful Germanic tribe that inhabited Batavia, on the delta of the river Rhine.
The Batavian Revolution (Dutch: De Bataafse Revolutie) was a time of political, social and cultural turmoil at the end of the 18th century that marked the end of the Dutch Republic and saw the proclamation of the Batavian Republic. The initial period, from about 1780 to 1787, is known as the Patriottentijd or "Time of the Patriots".
Gaius Julius Civilis (AD 25 – c. 1st century) was the leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans in 69 AD. His nomen shows that he (or one of his male ancestors) was made a Roman citizen (and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal) by either Augustus or Caligula.
Inside the palace on the second floor, with one of the lunettes by Jordaens. The painting follows Tacitus's Histories in depicting an episode from the Batavian rebellion (69–70 AD), led by the one-eyed chieftain Claudius Civilis (actually called Julius Civilis by Tacitus, though but once, Claudius Civilis has since become entrenched in art history), [2] in which he "collected at one of the ...
The President of the National Assembly was head of state of the Batavian Republic between 1796 and 1798, during his term in office (usually just half a month). A number of members of the second National Assembly (elected in 1797) were expelled after a coup d'état by Pieter Vreede on 25 January 1798 aided by General Herman Willem Daendels .