The temperature on August 12, 1834 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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).
February 3 » Wake Forest University is established (as Wake Forest Institute) in North Carolina, United States.
March 6 » York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
August 1 » Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.
October 16 » Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
December 1 » Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
Day of death July 15, 1911
The temperature on July 15, 1911 was between 11.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
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