March 19, 1723 |
Wrote Letter L-584 of 1723-03-19 to James Jurin about blood, the size of blood globules, the state of his health, and the role of the ovary in reproduction |
April 1, 1723 |
Royal Society read Letter L-570 of 27 June 1721, two years after it was written, about beans and peas |
May 31, 1723 |
Wrote Letter L-585 of 1723-05-31 to the members of the Royal Society about the structure and texture of the diaphragm, the source of his most severe ailment |
June 8, 1723 |
Royal Society read Letter L-584 about blood, Leeuwenhoek's health, and his position on ovaries |
July 6, 1723 |
James Jurin wrote Letter L-586 to introduce Matthew Raper to Leeuwenhoek and continue the discussion about blood globules and generation |
July 11, 1723 |
Philosophical Transactions, vol. 32, no. 377 published, containing Letter L-584 |
July 15, 1723 |
Visited by Matthew Raper |
August 1, 1723 |
Wrote Letter L-587 of sometime in August to James Jurin about the similarities between globules in blood and in the lees of wine to argue against Jurin’s hope to discover how blood globules are made |
August 1, 1723 |
Wrote Letter L-588 of 1723-08-00 to James Jurin about his spermist view of the generation of animals and palpitations of his diaphragm, his final letter |
August 25, 1723 |
Requested on his deathbed that his friend Johannes Hoogvliet translate his final two letters into Latin |
August 26, 1723 |
Died in his Hippolytusbuurt home, 90 years old |
August 27, 1723 |
Delft newspaper published notice of Leeuwenhoek's death |
August 29, 1723 |
pastor Petrus Gribius wrote Letter L-589 to James Jurin announcing Leeuwenhoek's death |
August 31, 1723 |
Buried in Oude Kerk |
September 4, 1723 |
Johannes Hoogvliet wrote Letter L-590 to James Jurin accompanying his Latin translation of Leeuwenhoek's last two letters |
September 4, 1723 |
Replaced as wine gauger by Lambert the Greek |
October 4, 1723 |
daughter Maria wrote Letter L-591 as a cover letter for the cabinet with 26 magnifying glasses to the Royal Society (AB 381) |
October 4, 1723 |
pastor Petrus Gribius wrote Letter L-592 to James Jurin about Leeuwenhoek's methods |
October 12, 1723 |
James Jurin wrote Letter L-593 to Peter Gribius about Leeuwenhoek's death |
October 20, 1723 |
Arnout van den Berch wrote Letter L-594 to the Royal Society that Abraham Edens will deliver the cabinet of magnifying glasses to the Royal Society |
November 2, 1723 |
translator John Chamberlayne died |
November 11, 1723 |
Philosophical Transactions, vol. 32, no. 379 published, containing Letter L-585 |
November 18, 1723 |
Isaac Newton wrote Letter L-595 to Abraham Edens, a receipt for the cabinet with 26 magnifying glasses |
November 18, 1723 |
Abraham Edens presented a cabinet sent by Maria van Leeuwenhoek with 26 of her father's magnifying glasses to the Royal Society; |
November 29, 1723 |
James Jurin wrote Letter L-596 to Maria van Leeuwenhoek thanking her for sending the cabinet with 26 magnifying glasses |
November 29, 1723 |
James Jurin wrote Letter L-597 to Arnoud van den Berch about the cabinet of microscopes |
November 29, 1723 |
James Jurin wrote Letter L-598 to Petrus Gribius thanking him for the safe delivery of the cabinet with Leeuwenhoek's magnifying glasses |
December 2, 1723 |
Royal Society read Leeuwenhoek's Letter L-587 and Letter L-588 of August 1723, the final time they would read a letter by Leeuwenhoek, and Letter L-592 from Petrus Gribius |
December 17, 1723 |
James Jurin wrote to Peter Gribius in thanks for the cabinet full of "precious treasures" |
January 11, 1724 |
Martin Folkes's article, Letter L-599, about Leeuwenhoek's cabinet of microscopes published in Philosophical Transactions |
January 11, 1724 |
Philosophical Transactions, vol. 32, no. 380 published with final two letters by Leeuwenhoek, L-587 and L-588, and Martin Folkes's article about the bequest of 26 microscopes |
June 2, 1724 |
James Jurin wrote Letter L-600 to Arnoud van den Berch about delivering the Royal Society's gifts to Maria van Leeuwenhoek |
June 2, 1724 |
James Jurin wrote Letter L-601 to Maria van Leeuwenhoek, presenting her with two volumes of Philosophical Transactions and a silver bowl |
January 1, 1729 |
Reinier Boitet's Beschryving der Stadt Delft published; first biography of Leeuwenhoek |
April 16, 1729 |
nephew Anthonij Jans de Molijn buried |
January 1, 1730 |
Published Continuatio Epistolarum (Continuation of the Letters), Letters 53-60 (4th) |
February 21, 1730 |
cousin Adriaen Lambrechts Leeuwenhoek, the notary, had his license suspended by the Heren van de Weth |
August 7, 1732 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek added codicil to 1721 will |
September 23, 1733 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek assessed for property tax on the Gulden Hoofd |
November 14, 1739 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek funded the Oude Kerk memorial for her father |
June 24, 1741 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek made a will charging the Kamer van Charitate with cleaning and maintaining the Oude Kerk memorial |
May 20, 1744 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek made her final will |
April 25, 1745 |
Maria Thonis van Leeuwenhoek died |
April 30, 1745 |
Maria Thonis van Leeuwenhoek buried |
May 1, 1745 |
The Leeuwenhoek wills opened by notary Joris Geesteranus in the presence of the heirs |
June 26, 1745 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek's estate inventoried |
August 23, 1745 |
house on Hippolytusbuurt, het Gulden Hoofd, offered for sale |
August 25, 1745 |
house on Hippolytusbuurt, het Gulden Hoofd, sold to great-nephew Dirk Haaxman |
September 25, 1745 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek's 1744 will presented to Weeskamer |
March 22, 1746 |
Maria van Leeuwenhoek's heirs agree that the two estates should be considered jointly and divided evenly |
September 15, 1746 |
Maria's van Leeuwenhoek's estate partly distributed to her heirs |
March 6, 1747 |
Auction of Leeuwenhoek's microscopes announced in Leydse Courant |
May 22, 1747 |
Auction of Leeuwenhoek's microcopes announced in cities throughout Europe |
May 23, 1747 |
Andries Voorstad auctioned the books and instruments of a "Liefhebber" |
May 29, 1747 |
Leeuwenhoek's magnifying glasses auctioned |
September 26, 1748 |
Margareta Cornelia Hobus died childless |
August 19, 1749 |
Executors of daughter Maria's estate advertised for heirs |
August 14, 1755 |
niece Margareta Cornelia Hobus's estate |
December 1, 1755 |
Josina van der Sprenkel sold the house on the Oosteinde that daughter Maria had bequeathed her |
October 28, 1757 |
Executors of daughter Maria's estate declared that it cannot be distributed |
October 17, 1763 |
niece Maria's granddaughter Maria Jans Haaxman divorced from Steven Bolland |
December 14, 1765 |
great-nephew Dirk Haaxman sold the Gulden Hoofd |
September 23, 1776 |
daughter Maria, final accounting of her estate |