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Day of marriage April 27, 1850

• The temperature on April 27, 1850 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1850: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
  • February 2 » Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
  • March 5 » The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
  • July 9 » Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
  • September 9 » California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
  • November 24 » Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.

Day of death November 29, 1881

• The temperature on November 29, 1881 was about 5.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.

Day of burial December 3, 1881

• The temperature on December 3, 1881 was about 5.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
  • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1846 » Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1778)
• 1847 » Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802)
• 1872 » Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1780)
• 1883 » Hiệp Hòa, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1847)
• 1894 » Juan N. Méndez, Mexican general and interim president, 1876-1877 (b. 1820)
• 1918 » Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (b. 1881)