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Christening day November 28, 1843

• The temperature on November 28, 1843 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt 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 1843: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
  • February 11 » Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
  • February 25 » Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
  • June 17 » The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
  • August 15 » Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • October 1 » The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London, UK.

Day of marriage February 19, 1867

• The temperature on February 19, 1867 was about 11.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
  • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
  • July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.

Day of death March 20, 1887

• The temperature on March 20, 1887 was about 3.3 °C. The air pressure was 22 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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 year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
  • July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
  • July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
  • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
  • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
  • November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)