Navorska tree » Susanna (Susanne) Harms (1792-1862)

Christening day June 24, 1792

• The temperature on June 24, 1792 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
  • April 2 » The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
  • April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
  • July 25 » The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
  • September 11 » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
  • October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

Day of marriage December 23, 1810

• The temperature on December 23, 1810 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken 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 1810: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 5 » Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
  • April 19 » Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
  • May 25 » May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence.
  • September 8 » The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
  • October 12 » The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.
  • November 23 » Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.

Day of death January 17, 1862

• The temperature on January 17, 1862 was about -8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • January 31 » Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
  • 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.
  • June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
  • July 12 » The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
  • October 8 » American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
  • November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Day of burial January 21, 1862

• The temperature on January 21, 1862 was about -9.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
  • January 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
  • May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
  • August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
  • August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Lola Montez, Irish actress and dancer (b. 1821)
• 1863 » Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
• 1869 » Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
• 1878 » Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804)
• 1887 » William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)