Familienamen: Smit, Schaar(e)man, van Reuler en de Bruijn. » Petrus Johannes Delissen (1836-1914)

Day of marriage November 19, 1879

• The temperature on November 19, 1879 was about -0.3 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1879: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • April 5 » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
  • May 2 » The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
  • June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
  • October 22 » Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasts 13​⁄₂ hours before burning out).

Day of death October 8, 1914

• The temperature on October 8, 1914 was between 3.5 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
  • June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
  • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
  • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

Source: Wikipedia

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