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Personal data Willem Adriaan van Deventer b6c4d7 


Household of Willem Adriaan van Deventer b6c4d7

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Petronella Magdalena van Zyl) is also his cousin.

He is married to Petronella Magdalena van Zyl.

They got married August 1807 at Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa, he was 25 years old.


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    Birthday May 9, 1782

    • The temperature on May 9, 1782 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1782: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
      • March 16 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
      • June 20 » The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
      • July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
      • August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
      • December 14 » The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2km (1.2mi).

    Day of death August 27, 1861

    • The temperature on August 27, 1861 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
    • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
    • In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • March 30 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
      • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
      • May 13 » American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.
      • August 6 » Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
      • September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
      • December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
    

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