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Day of marriage May 18, 1851

• The temperature on May 18, 1851 was about 11.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
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  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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
  • May 1 » Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
  • May 21 » Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
  • September 18 » First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
  • December 22 » India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
  • December 29 » The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

Day of death September 6, 1910

• The temperature on September 6, 1910 was between 12.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
  • January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
  • June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
  • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
  • November 23 » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (b. 1815)
• 1902 » Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (b. 1827)
• 1907 » Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (b. 1846)
• 1927 » William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (b. 1855)