Dreyer Tree » Gerrit Johannes (Gert Johannes) van Zijl (-1863)

Personal data Gerrit Johannes (Gert Johannes) van Zijl 

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  • He was born DE in Gerrit Johannes Baptised: 1790, den 10 Januarij Father: Jacobus van Zijl Mother: Jannetje Laberschagnie Witnesses: Gerrit Olivier en Johannes van Zijl en Helena de Jager Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Tulbagh, Western Cape.
  • He was baptized on January 10, 1790.
  • He died on October 16, 1863. He was 74 years old.
  • A child of Jacobus van Zyl and Johanna Labuschagne

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Johannes (Gert Johannes) van Zijl

Johannes van Zyl
< 1700-1742
Katerina van Eeden
1712-1742
Jean (Jan) Labuschagne
1706-1753
Geesje (Gesina) "Gezina" Steenkamp
< 1723-> 1767

Gerrit Johannes (Gert Johannes) van Zijl
-1863


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    1. Meiring Web Site, John Henry Meiring, Gerrit Johannes (Gert Johannes) van Zijl, February 20, 2016
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    Historical events

    Christening day January 10, 1790

    • The temperature on January 10, 1790 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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
      • May 31 » The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
      • 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 6 » The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
      • December 17 » The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
      • December 22 » The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.
      • December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

    Day of death October 16, 1863

    • The temperature on October 16, 1863 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
      • April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
      • June 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
      • July 18 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
      • October 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
      • November 26 » United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.
    

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