Genealogy Mundorff » Pieter-Jacobus ( Cattrijsse ) Cattrysse (1817-1900)

Day of marriage October 2, 1844

• The temperature on October 2, 1844 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 year 1844: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
  • February 28 » A gun on USSPrinceton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members.
  • May 23 » Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
  • May 24 » Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
  • June 27 » Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
  • October 22 » Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.

Day of death April 2, 1900

• The temperature on April 2, 1900 was about 2.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  • March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
  • May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
  • July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
  • October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)