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Christening day October 1, 1836

• The temperature on October 1, 1836 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen bui. 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 1836: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • February 25 » Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm.
  • March 5 » Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
  • May 14 » The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
  • June 15 » Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
  • July 29 » Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
  • October 16 » Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.

Day of marriage May 15, 1876

• The temperature on May 15, 1876 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
  • June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
  • July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
  • August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
  • November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
  • December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.

Day of death April 20, 1916

• The temperature on April 20, 1916 was between 4.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • April 24 » Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
  • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
  • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)
• 1912 » Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
• 1918 » Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
• 1927 » Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1862)
• 1931 » Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish-English fencer and businessman (b. 1862)