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Personal data Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie van Oranje-Nassau 

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Household of Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie van Oranje-Nassau

She is married to Hendrik Wladimir Albrecht Ernst Nicolaas Alexander Frederik van Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

They got married on February 7, 1901, she was 20 years old.


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Notes about Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie van Oranje-Nassau

Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria van Oranje Nassau, geboren te 's-Gravenhage op 31 augustus 1880, is het enige kind uit het tweede huwelijk van Koning Willem III met Emma van Waldeck-Pyrmont (1858-1934

. Ze wordt in streng isolement opgevoed. Het hof heeft zij in haar memoires gekarakteriseerd als 'de kooi'.

Door het overlijden van haar halfbroer Alexander d.d. 21 juni 1884, wordt ze troonopvolgster. Bij de dood van haar vader, op 23 november 1890, wordt ze koningin. Aangezien ze dan nog minderjarig is, wordt haar moeder, Koningin Emma, aangewezen als regentes. Wilhelmina wordt gekroond op 6 september 1898 in de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam.

Op 7 februari 1901 trouwde Wilhelmina met hertog Hendrik van Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Dit gebeurde na nogal wat diplomatieke onderhandelingen. Uit dit huwelijk wordt op 30 april 1909 hun enige kind, prinses Juliana, geboren. Prins Hendrik heeft echter vooral belangstelling voor de jacht en voor vrouwen en verwekt een buitenechtelijk kind.

Wilhelmina gelooft in een hecht verbond tussen God, Vaderland en Oranje. Willem van Oranje en koning Willem I zijn haar grote voorbeelden. Tijdens de eerste Wereldoorlog steunt koningin Wilhelmina fanatiek de Nederlandse neutraliteit. In de jaren '20, als het kabinet sterk bezuinigt op defensie, denkt ze meermalen aan aftreden. Haar precieze invloed op de politiek is moeilijk vast te stellen. Het staat wel vast dat zij in de politiek verre van meegaand is. Vaak kiest zij duidelijk partij, ook in politiek gevoelige zaken.

Vanaf de opkomst van Adolf Hitler in Duitsland leeft Wilhelmina in de overtuiging dat een nieuwe Wereldoorlog onvermijdelijk is en dat Nederland er deze keer niet buiten zal kunnen blijven. Als de Duitsers in 1940 Nederland binnenvallen vlucht ze naar Engeland waar ze een regering in ballingschap opricht. In Londen wordt Wilhelmina hét symbool voor het Nederlandse verzet.

Gedurende haar ballingschap in Londen krijgt het koningschap voor Wilhelmina meer inhoud, in de vorm van meer politieke macht.

Gaandeweg vestigt Wilhelmina haar hoop op een nieuw staatsbestel na de oorlog, zonder de oude politieke partijen en met een sterk uitvoerend gezag waarin een vooraanstaande rol zou zijn weggelegd voor de kroon en de leiders van het verzet.

Als ze na de oorlog, in 1945, terugkeert naar Nederland worden de oude verhoudingen echter grotendeels hersteld. Voor Wilhelmina betekent dit een enorme teleurstelling. Op 4 september 1948 doet Wilhelmina in het Paleis op de Dam troonsafstand. Ze wordt opgevolgd door haar enige kind, koningin Juliana. De jaren daarna brengt zij door op paleis Het Loo. Wilhelmina sterft op 28 november 1962. Volgens haar eigen wens wordt ze in een witte koets naar de koninklijke grafkelder in de Nieuwe Kerk te Delft gebracht.

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Historical events

Birthday August 31, 1880

  • The temperature on August 31, 1880 was about 24.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%. 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 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 1880: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
    • May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
    • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
    • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
    • September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
    • November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

Christening day October 12, 1880

  • The temperature on October 12, 1880 was about 7.1 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 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 1880: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
    • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
    • June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
    • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
    • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
    • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

Day of marriage February 7, 1901

  • The temperature on February 7, 1901 was between -10.5 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (69%). 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
    • March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
    • June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
    • August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
    • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
    • November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

Day of death November 28, 1962

  • The temperature on November 28, 1962 was between 5.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
    • March 2 » In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
    • March 19 » The Algerian War of Independence ends.
    • May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
    • July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
    • July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
    • July 13 » In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.

Day of burial December 8, 1962

  • The temperature on December 8, 1962 was between -3.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
    • February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
    • August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
    • October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
    • October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
    • October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
    • November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1879 » Alma Mahler, Austrian-American composer and author († 1964)
  • 1879 » Taishō, emperor of Japan († 1926)
  • 1880 » Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands († 1962)
  • 1884 » George Sarton, Belgian-American historian of science († 1956)
  • 1885 » DuBose Heyward, American author and playwright († 1940)

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