Genealogy Meert - Dressler » Maria Verbiest (1814-1885)

Day of marriage February 21, 1861

• The temperature on February 21, 1861 was about 11.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 3 » American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
  • January 21 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
  • April 6 » First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
  • June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
  • August 19 » First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
  • December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Day of death February 9, 1885

• The temperature on February 9, 1885 was about 5.0 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
  • March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
  • July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
  • July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
  • November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)
• 1881 » Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1821)
• 1891 » Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
• 1903 » Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816)
• 1906 » Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)