Family tree Dijkstra » Harmen Derksen (1762-1830)

Christening day February 28, 1762

• The temperature on February 28, 1762 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken sneeuw. 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1762: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 4 » Great Britain declares war on Spain, thus entering the Seven Years' War.
  • March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
  • May 5 » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
  • May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
  • July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
  • September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.

Day of marriage August 8, 1790

• The temperature on August 8, 1790 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: 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 1790: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
  • March 1 » The first United States census is authorized.
  • July 16 » The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
  • October 9 » A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
  • November 1 » Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
  • December 22 » The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.

Day of death June 25, 1830

• The temperature on June 25, 1830 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken. 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 1830: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.6 million citizens.
  • June 14 » Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
  • June 26 » William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
  • July 13 » The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
  • August 28 » The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
  • November 27 » Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
  • November 29 » November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1798 » Thomas Sandby, English cartographer, painter, and architect (b. 1721)
• 1822 » E. T. A. Hoffmann, German composer, critic, and jurist (b. 1776)
• 1835 » Ebenezer Pemberton, American educator (b. 1746)
• 1838 » François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (b. 1774)
• 1861 » Abdülmecid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1823)
• 1866 » Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (b. 1803)