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Personal data Christiaan Pieter de Wit 


Household of Christiaan Pieter de Wit

He is married to Johanna Christina de Kock.

They got married on November 18, 1792 at Kaapstad, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Suid-Afrika, he was 33 years old.


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Christiaan Pieter de Wit

Cristoffel de Wit
1695-1718
Judith Stevens
1696-1718
Johannes Brandt
1706-1741
Christina de Vey
1701-1790

Christiaan Pieter de Wit
1759-1817

1792

Johanna Christina de Kock
1772-????

Margaretha Johanna de Wit
1793-????
Christina Petronella de WIT
1799-1848

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    Historical events

    Birthday July 28, 1759

    • The temperature on July 28, 1759 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel 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)
    • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1759: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 11 » The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      • January 15 » The British Museum opens to the public.
      • May 1 » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
      • August 19 » Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
      • September 13 » Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
      • December 31 » Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

    Day of marriage November 18, 1792

    • The temperature on November 18, 1792 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
      • April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
      • April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
      • May 15 » War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
      • September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
      • October 13 » In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.

    Day of death April 30, 1817

    • The temperature on April 30, 1817 was about 5.0 °C. There was 180 mm of rainWind direction mainly east. Weather type: half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: . 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 1817: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 19 » An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
      • February 8 » Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
      • April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
      • June 5 » The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
      • July 19 » Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.
      • November 3 » The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
    

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