Database Van Broekhoven » Antonij Smits (1845-1915)
Personal data Antonij Smits
- He was born on January 10, 1845 in Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland.
- He died on April 26, 1915 in Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 70 years old.
- A child of Henricus Smits and Wilhelmina van Laanen
- This information was last updated on October 5, 2024.
Household of Antonij Smits
He is married to Gordina van Schaijk.
They got married on February 10, 1881 at Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 36 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- Wilhelmus Smits 1883-1890
- Wilhelmina Smits 1887-1888
Timeline Antonij Smits
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Sources
7025 GA Gemert-Bakel https://www.gemeentearchiefgemert-bakel.nl
Historical events
Birthday January 10, 1845
- The temperature on January 10, 1845 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1845: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- March 1 » United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
- March 25 » New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
- May 19 » Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
- July 4 » Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
- September 23 » The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
- December 27 » Journalist John L. O'Sullivan, writing in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argues that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny".
Day of marriage February 10, 1881
- The temperature on February 10, 1881 was about 6.5 °C. There was 15 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
- April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
- June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
- July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
- July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
- August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
Day of death April 26, 1915
- The temperature on April 26, 1915 was between 5.8 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
- February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
- May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
- May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
- July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
- August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
Same birth/death day
- 1840 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal († 1925)
- 1842 » Luigi Pigorini, Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer († 1925)
- 1843 » Frank James, American soldier and criminal († 1915)
- 1848 » Reinhold Sadler, American merchant and politician, 9th Governor of Nevada († 1906)
- 1849 » Robert Crosbie, Canadian theosophist, founded the United Lodge of Theosophists († 1919)
- 1850 » John Wellborn Root, American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building († 1891)
- 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
- 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
- 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
- 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
- 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
- 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
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