De bomen van Kreijkes » Janna Vellenaar (1836-1905)

Day of marriage November 12, 1858

• The temperature on November 12, 1858 was about 5.4 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 1, 1856 to March 18, 1858 the cabinet Van der Brugghen, with Mr. J.L.L. van der Brugghen (protestant) as prime minister.
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• In the year 1858: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
  • January 14 » Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
  • February 11 » Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.
  • July 29 » United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
  • August 11 » The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
  • August 20 » Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

Day of death March 30, 1905

• The temperature on March 30, 1905 was between 6.0 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
  • May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
  • November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
  • December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Thomas Couture, French painter and educator (b. 1815)
• 1886 » Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Premier of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1896 » Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1832)
• 1912 » Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
• 1925 » Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1861)
• 1935 » Romanos Melikian, Armenian composer (b. 1883)