Emigranten » Dirk van der Grift (1837-1903)
Personal data Dirk van der Grift
- He was born on April 19, 1837 in Culemborg (GL).Source 1
- He died on June 15, 1903 in Oudenrijn (UT), he was 66 years old.Source 2
- A child of Jacobus van der Grift and Marianna Louisa Beekman
- This information was last updated on August 4, 2019.
Household of Dirk van der Grift
He is married to Gijsberta Louisa de Leur.
They got married on December 11, 1861 at Utrecht (UT), he was 24 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Franciscus Jacobus van der Grift 1862-1941
- Dirk Gijsbertus van der Grift 1864-1946
- Jacobus Lodewijk van der Grift 1866-1949
- Laurens Clasinus van der Grift 1868-1868
- Nicolaas Johannes van der Grift 1869-1873
- Johannes Adolf van der Grift 1872-1936
- Nicolaas Johannes van der Grift 1874-1941
- Marinus Gijsbertus van der Grift 1879-1909
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Historical events
Birthday April 19, 1837
- The temperature on April 19, 1837 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt zwaar dampig. 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- March 4 » The city of Chicago is incorporated.
- May 10 » Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
- June 20 » Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- July 25 » The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
- September 18 » Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
- November 22 » Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
Day of marriage December 11, 1861
- The temperature on December 11, 1861 was about 6.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
- January 11 » American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.
- January 19 » American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
- February 18 » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
- June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.
- October 1 » Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
Day of death June 15, 1903
- The temperature on June 15, 1903 was between 6.6 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). 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 year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
- June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
- July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
- September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
- November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
- December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
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- 1835 » Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist († 1888)
- 1863 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor († 1940)
- 1872 » Alice Salomon, German social reformer († 1948)
- 1888 » Frederick III, German Emperor (b. 1831)
- 1889 » Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
- 1890 » Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
- 1917 » Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic (b. 1867)
- 1934 » Alfred Bruneau, French cellist and composer (b. 1857)
- 1938 » Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
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