Family tree Dekkers » Geessien Meijer (1837-1905)

Day of marriage August 27, 1864

• The temperature on August 27, 1864 was about 17.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 26 » Montana is organized as a United States territory.
  • June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
  • June 29 » At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
  • August 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
  • November 29 » American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
  • December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.

Day of death July 18, 1905

• The temperature on July 18, 1905 was between 11.6 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
  • September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
  • October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
  • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
  • November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)