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Personal data Christoffel van Gent 


Household of Christoffel van Gent

He is married to Apolonia Tuijnebreijer.

They got married on May 1, 1816 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, he was 36 years old.Source 1


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Christoffel van Gent

Christoffel van Gent
1779-1873

1816

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Historical events

  • The temperature on July 4, 1779 was about 16.0 °C. There was 70 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken. 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 1779: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
    • February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
    • July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
    • August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
    • September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
    • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
  • The temperature on May 1, 1816 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: omtrent betrokken zeevlam winderig. 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 1816: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 14 » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
    • July 2 » The French frigateMéduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
    • August 14 » The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
    • August 24 » The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
    • September 5 » Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
    • November 19 » Warsaw University is established.
  • The temperature on October 2, 1873 was about 19.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
  • In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
    • April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
    • May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
    • October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
    • October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
    • November 22 » The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.


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J. van Broekhoven, "Database Van Broekhoven", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/database-van-broekhoven/I41972.php : accessed February 3, 2026), "Christoffel van Gent (1779-1873)".