Genealogy Zwanepol » Pieter Jansen Groen (1782-1865)

Christening day March 18, 1782

• The temperature on March 18, 1782 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. 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 1782: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 16 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
  • April 19 » John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
  • April 21 » The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
  • July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
  • August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
  • September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

Day of marriage January 30, 1812

• The temperature on January 30, 1812 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. 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 1812: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 27 » Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
  • April 6 » British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
  • May 11 » Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
  • May 18 » John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
  • August 11 » Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
  • August 24 » Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.

Day of death September 23, 1865

• The temperature on September 23, 1865 was about 17.9 °C. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
  • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1850 » José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (b. 1764)
• 1851 » Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun, founded the Sisters of Providence (b. 1800)
• 1870 » Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1803)
• 1871 » Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1786)
• 1873 » Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
• 1877 » Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1811)