Genealogy Van Versendaal » Kommer de GEUS (1826-1913)

Day of marriage February 17, 1861

• The temperature on February 17, 1861 was about 9.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. 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)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 11 » American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
  • February 23 » President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • March 3 » Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
  • April 29 » American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
  • May 6 » American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
  • December 10 » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.

Day of death April 5, 1913

• The temperature on April 5, 1913 was between 5.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • January 3 » An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
  • March 12 » The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
  • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
  • November 5 » King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
  • November 9 » The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)
• 1914 » Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)
• 1918 » George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)
• 1918 » Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (b. 1845)
• 1920 » Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (b. 1848)