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Day of marriage November 4, 1842

• The temperature on November 4, 1842 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly 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 1842: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • March 17 » The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed.
  • May 8 » A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
  • May 30 » John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
  • August 1 » The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • August 14 » American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
  • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

Day of death April 15, 1865

• The temperature on April 15, 1865 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 29 » American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
  • April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

Day of burial May 4, 1865

• The temperature on May 4, 1865 was about 22.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)
• 1861 » Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
• 1865 » Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1888 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 » Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician