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Personal data Geertje Jans "Gerritje" Kaper 


Household of Geertje Jans "Gerritje" Kaper

She is married to Gerrit Pietersz Houtzager.

They got married on June 6, 1778 at Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland, she was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  6. Jan Gerrtisz Houtzager  1789-1848 

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Historical events

Day of marriage June 6, 1778

  • The temperature on June 6, 1778 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1778: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
    • February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
    • July 27 » American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
    • September 19 » The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
    • November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
    • December 15 » American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.

Day of death May 21, 1842

  • The temperature on May 21, 1842 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. 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).
  • In the year 1842: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 13 » Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
    • May 8 » A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
    • August 9 » The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
    • August 14 » American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
    • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
    • November 26 » The University of Notre Dame is founded.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1790 » Thomas Warton, English poet and critic (b. 1728)
  • 1810 » Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat and spy (b. 1728)
  • 1844 » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
  • 1858 » José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)
  • 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
  • 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)

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