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Christening day March 26, 1851

• The temperature on March 26, 1851 was about 10.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 1851: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • May 15 » The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
  • September 11 » Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
  • September 18 » First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
  • October 18 » Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
  • December 24 » The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
  • December 29 » The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

Day of marriage October 27, 1885

• The temperature on October 27, 1885 was about 6.1 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
  • May 1 » The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
  • July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
  • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
  • October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

Day of death September 27, 1905

• The temperature on September 27, 1905 was between 7.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
  • August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
  • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (b. 1812)
• 1898 » Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (b. 1860)
• 1911 » Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1915 » Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1858)
• 1917 » Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
• 1919 » Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (b. 1843)