Genealogy Witte » Gerritje Gijsbertse "Gerarda" Prompt(Pront) (1750-1815)

Christening day November 23, 2006

• The temperature on November 23, 2006 was between 7.8 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
  • May 17 » The aircraft carrier USSOriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
  • July 1 » The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
  • July 4 » Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
  • November 10 » The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
  • November 23 » A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.

Day of marriage March 1, 1774

• The temperature on March 1, 1774 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent helder. 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
  • 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.
  • June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
  • July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
  • September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
  • October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".

Day of death October 7, 1815

• The temperature on October 7, 1815 was about 14.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly east. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1815: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 16 » Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
  • March 20 » After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
  • June 1 » Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
  • June 18 » Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
  • August 24 » The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
  • October 15 » Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1772 » John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
• 1787 » Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)
• 1792 » George Mason, American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)
• 1793 » Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (b. 1718)
• 1796 » Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)
• 1849 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)