The temperature on June 26, 1846 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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).
May 7 » The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
June 16 » The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
September 10 » Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
September 23 » Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
October 16 » William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
December 28 » Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
Day of marriage October 27, 1869
The temperature on October 27, 1869 was about 4.1 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched
December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
Day of death September 26, 1881
The temperature on September 26, 1881 was about 12.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
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.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
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