Genealogy Van Melzen » Geert Jurriens Majeur (1774-1843)
Personal data Geert Jurriens Majeur
- He was born on December 25, 1774 in Midwolda.
- Profession: .
- He died on November 26, 1843 in Midwolda, he was 68 years old.
- A child of Jurjen Hams Majeur and Antje Jans Pastoors
- This information was last updated on April 6, 2021.
Household of Geert Jurriens Majeur
He is married to Anje Hemmes van der Laan.
They got married April 1810 at Midwolda, he was 35 years old.
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Birthday December 25, 1774
- The temperature on December 25, 1774 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: geheel 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 1774: Source: Wikipedia
- January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
- March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
- July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
- July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
- August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
Day of death November 26, 1843
- The temperature on November 26, 1843 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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).
- In the year 1843: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- February 25 » Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
- May 18 » The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
- June 26 » Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
- August 15 » The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
- August 15 » Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- October 30 » Fuerte Bulnes, the first Chilean settlement in the strait of Magellan, is founded.
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- 1851 » Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician, 12th Prime Minister of France (b. 1769)
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- 1857 » Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and author (b. 1788)
- 1860 » Benjamin Greene, English brewer, founded Greene King (b. 1780)
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