Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Job Carpenter (1696-1714)

Christening day February 20, 1894

• The temperature on February 20, 1894 was about -5.1 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
  • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  • September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Day of death February 9, 1714

• The temperature on February 9, 1714 was about 4.0 °C. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1714: Source: Wikipedia
  • August 1 » George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
  • August 7 » The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
  • September 11 » Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • September 18 » George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1640 » Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
• 1670 » Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
• 1675 » Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
• 1709 » François Louis, Prince of Conti (b. 1664)
• 1777 » Seth Pomeroy, American general and gunsmith (b. 1706)
• 1803 » Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier, poet, and philosopher (b. 1716)