Emigranten » Antje Spoelstra (1787-1861)

Christening day September 23, 1787

• The temperature on September 23, 1787 was about 15.0 °C. 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
  • January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
  • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
  • August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
  • October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

Day of death January 10, 1861

• The temperature on January 10, 1861 was about -7.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • February 18 » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
  • February 18 » With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
  • March 10 » El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • July 16 » American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
  • November 9 » The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1833 » Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752)
• 1843 » Dimitrie Macedonski, Greek-Romanian captain and politician (b. 1780)
• 1851 » Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
• 1855 » Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (b. 1787)
• 1862 » Samuel Colt, American engineer and businessman, founded Colt's Manufacturing Company (b. 1814)
• 1863 » Lyman Beecher, American minister and activist, co-founded the American Temperance Society (b. 1775)