Genealogy Pot en Smit » ARIAANTJE van der LINDEN (1792-1870)

Christening day April 29, 1792

• The temperature on April 29, 1792 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
  • April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
  • May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
  • August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
  • August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
  • September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

Day of marriage August 31, 1815

• The temperature on August 31, 1815 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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
  • January 15 » War of 1812: American frigate USSPresident, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
  • 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.
  • May 30 » The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
  • August 24 » The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
  • November 20 » The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by Allied troops for several more years.
  • December 11 » The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.

Day of death March 26, 1870

• The temperature on March 26, 1870 was about 4.8 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • June 26 » The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
  • July 1 » The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
  • September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  • September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » John Addison Thomas, American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1811)
• 1862 » Uriah P. Levy, American commander (b. 1792)
• 1881 » Roman Sanguszko, Polish general and activist (b. 1800)
• 1885 » Anson Stager, American general and businessman, co-founded Western Union (b. 1825)
• 1888 » Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
• 1892 » Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (b. 1819)