Genealogy Pot en Smit » JAKES SMIT (1836-1918)

Day of marriage March 22, 1862

• The temperature on March 22, 1862 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 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 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
  • February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
  • August 30 » American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
  • September 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
  • November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
  • December 26 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.

Day of death September 27, 1918

• The temperature on September 27, 1918 was between 8.1 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 31 » A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
  • May 14 » Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
  • October 3 » King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
  • November 11 » World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
  • November 26 » The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
  • December 27 » The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1915 » Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1858)
• 1917 » Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)
• 1919 » Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (b. 1843)
• 1921 » Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858)