Genealogy Pot en Smit » PLEUNTJE van der GRAAF (1787-1861)

Christening day January 6, 1788

• The temperature on January 6, 1788 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: 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 1788: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
  • February 6 » Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
  • May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
  • June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • July 26 » New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

Day of death February 15, 1861

• The temperature on February 15, 1861 was about 2.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 23 » President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • April 29 » American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
  • May 13 » The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
  • July 26 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
  • August 5 » The United States Army abolishes flogging.
  • August 28 » American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.

Day of burial February 18, 1861

• The temperature on February 18, 1861 was about 10.0 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.
  • August 6 » Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
  • September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
  • November 21 » American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1844 » Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
• 1847 » Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (b. 1794)
• 1848 » Hermann von Boyen, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (b. 1771)
• 1849 » Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804)
• 1857 » Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
• 1869 » Ghalib, Indian poet and educator (b. 1796)