Genealogy Noardeast-Fryslân » Jan Douwes Duursma (1762-1848)

Personal data Jan Douwes Duursma 


Household of Jan Douwes Duursma

He is married to Trijntje Eeuwes.

They got married on February 20, 1791 at Siegerswoude, he was 29 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Eeuwe Jans Duursma  1794-1861 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Douwes Duursma

Douwe Sytses
1725-????

Jan Douwes Duursma
1762-1848

1791

Trijntje Eeuwes
1760-1837

Eeuwe Jans Duursma
1794-1861

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Historical events

Day of marriage February 20, 1791

  • The temperature on February 20, 1791 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 10 » The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
    • May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
    • August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
    • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
    • October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
    • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

Day of death May 5, 1848

  • The temperature on May 5, 1848 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    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).
  • From November 21, 1848 till November 1, 1849 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Kempenaer - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. J.M. de Kempenaer (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
  • In the year 1848: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 3 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
    • January 31 » John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
    • March 18 » March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
    • June 21 » In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
    • July 11 » Waterloo railway station in London opens.
    • November 1 » In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.

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