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    King George Christian William Ferdinand Adolphus Oldenburg<br>Birth name: Prins Christian Vilhelm Ferdinand Adolf Georg af Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Glücksborg<br>Also known as: King George I of GreeceΒασιλεύς Γεώργιος Α΄ της ΕλλάδαςVasiléfs Geórgios A΄ tis Elládas<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Dec 24 1845 - Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark<br>Christening: Feb 14 1846 - Holmen Cathedral, Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark<br>Marriage: Spouse: Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna Romanova - Oct 27 1867 - Saint Petersburg, Russia<br>Death: Mar 18 1913 - White Tower, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Kingdom of Greece<br>Burial: Mar 20 1913 - Royal Cemetery, Athens, Attica, Kingdom of Greece<br>Title of Nobility: His Highness Prince William of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg - Between Dec 24 1845 and July 31 1853<br>Title of Nobility: His Highness Prince William of Denmark - Between July 31 1853 and Dec 21 1858<br>Title of Nobility: His Royal Highness Prince William of Denmark - Between Dec 21 1858 and Mar 30 1863<br>Title of Nobility: His Majesty The King of Greece - Between Mar 30 1863 and Mar 18 1913<br>Parents: Christian Edgart Moriz Glücksburg</a>, Louise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie (born von Hessen-Kassel)<br>Spouses: Grand Duchess Olga Oldenburg Romanova (born Constantinovna), Olga Constantinovna of Russia Oldenburg<br>Children: King Constantine I Glücksburg of Greece, Prince George Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark, Princess Alexandra Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark, Prince Nicholas Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark, Princess Maria Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark, Stephan Pavlos von Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark, Princess Olga Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark, Prince Andrew Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark, Prince Christopher Glücksburg of Greece and Denmark<br>Siblings: Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Frederick VIII. König von Dänemark, Princess of Denmark Alexandra Of The United Kingdom Saxe-Coburg und Gotha Queen Consort of United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Empress of India (born of Schleswigh-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg), Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar Romanov of Russia (born of Denmark), Thyra Amalie Caroline Charlotte Anna Prinsesse af Danmark, hertuginde af Cumberland, Prince Valdemar of Denmark<br>  Additional information:

    LifeSketch: William George zu Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg Ie Royal Danish Navy. He was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the Greek National Assembly, which had deposed the unpopular former king Otto. His nomination was both suggested and supported by the Great Powers: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire and the Russian Empire. He married the Russian grand duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, and became the first monarch of a new Greek dynasty. Two of his sisters, Alexandra and Dagmar, married into the British and Russian royal families. King Edward VII and Tsar Alexander III were his brothers-in-law and King George V and Tsar Nicholas II were his nephews.place in pre-World War I Europe. Britain ceded the Ionian Islands peacefully, while Thessaly was annexed from the Ottoman Empire after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Greece was not always successful in its territorial ambitions; it was defeated in the Greco-Turkish War (1897). During the First Balkan War, after Greek troops had captured much of Greek Macedonia, George was assassinated in Thessaloniki. Compared to his own long tenure, the reigns of his successors Constantine, Alexander, and George II proved short and insecure.
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Birthday December 24, 1845

  • The temperature on December 24, 1845 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken dampig. 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 year 1845: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 29 » "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
    • March 11 » Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
    • July 4 » Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
    • November 20 » Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
    • December 27 » Journalist John L. O'Sullivan, writing in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argues that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny".
    • December 29 » In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.

Christening day February 14, 1846

  • The temperature on February 14, 1846 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken dampig regen . 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 year 1846: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • May 13 » Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on the Federal Republic of Mexico following a dispute over the American annexation of the Republic of Texas and a Mexican military incursion.
    • June 16 » The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
    • July 7 » US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
    • September 19 » Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
    • September 23 » Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
    • December 6 » American and Californio forces clash at the Battle of San Pasqual.

Day of death March 18, 1913

  • The temperature on March 18, 1913 was between -1.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
    • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
    • March 18 » King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
    • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
    • July 3 » Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
    • August 13 » First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

Day of burial March 20, 1913

  • The temperature on March 20, 1913 was between 4.7 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
    • February 13 » The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
    • March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
    • March 26 » First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
    • June 24 » Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
    • July 3 » Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.


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