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Day of marriage April 21, 1837

• The temperature on April 21, 1837 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken dampig. Source: KNMI
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  De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
• In the year 1837: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The city of Chicago is incorporated.
  • May 10 » Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
  • June 11 » The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
  • July 4 » Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
  • July 25 » The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
  • November 17 » An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.

Day of death March 20, 1867

• The temperature on March 20, 1867 was about 3.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
  • October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
  • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1849 » James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)
• 1855 » Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
• 1865 » Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)