Genealogy Harssema » Berend HARKEMA (± 1858-1924)

Personal data Berend HARKEMA 


Household of Berend HARKEMA

He is married to Martje SCHILLHORN VAN VEEN.

They got married on May 9, 1888 at Uithuizen Groningen Netherlands.


Child(ren):

  2. Dirk Pieter HARKEMA  1890-1965


Notes about Berend HARKEMA

4C4R from Minne Heertjes (1680 - ?) and Dieuwerke Repkes Froma.

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Historical events

Day of marriage May 9, 1888

  • The temperature on May 9, 1888 was about 11.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
    • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
    • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
    • September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
    • September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
    • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

Day of death August 13, 1924

  • The temperature on August 13, 1924 was between 11.6 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
    • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
    • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
    • July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
    • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
    • December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
    • December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.


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