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Personal data Gerard Antonius de Ruijter 

  • He was born on February 2, 1865 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland.
  • He died on February 23, 1896 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, he was 31 years old.
  • This information was last updated on September 27, 2019.

Household of Gerard Antonius de Ruijter

He is married to Antje Meek.

They got married on December 13, 1893 at Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, he was 28 years old.Source 1

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Historical events

  • The temperature on February 2, 1865 was about 5.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
    • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
    • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
    • December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
    • December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
  • The temperature on February 23, 1896 was about -3.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
    • February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
    • February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
    • March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
    • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
    • May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.


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About the surname De Ruijter


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J. van Broekhoven, "Database Van Broekhoven", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/database-van-broekhoven/I199856.php : accessed February 6, 2026), "Gerard Antonius de Ruijter (1865-1896)".