Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Anna Maria Helena - Helena Bölle (1790-1868)

Christening day July 4, 1790

• The temperature on July 4, 1790 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1790: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 4 » France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
  • July 9 » The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
  • July 12 » The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
  • July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
  • September 25 » Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
  • October 9 » A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.

Day of marriage January 20, 1813

• The temperature on January 20, 1813 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1813: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 28 » Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
  • March 4 » Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • May 24 » South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
  • June 21 » Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.
  • August 10 » Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work conquers all things".
  • October 16 » The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.

Day of death October 8, 1868

• The temperature on October 8, 1868 was about 7.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 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 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).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1868: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
  • March 23 » The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
  • April 7 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
  • June 23 » Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
  • August 18 » French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
  • November 2 » Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1821 » Juan O'Donojú, last Spanish ruler of Mexico (b. 1762)
• 1834 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)