Olson's Tree » William Lambert Harrison (1846-1919)
Personal data William Lambert Harrison
Source 1- He was born on January 8, 1846 in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States.
- He died on February 16, 1919 in Charles City, Charles, Virginia, United States, he was 73 years old.
- A child of William Mortimer Harrison and Caroline Rivers Lambert
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Birthday January 8, 1846
- The temperature on January 8, 1846 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken dampig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1846: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- January 23 » Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.
- February 19 » In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
- May 1 » The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
- June 19 » The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
- September 14 » Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- September 23 » Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
Day of death February 16, 1919
- The temperature on February 16, 1919 was between -2.9 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
- February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
- February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
- May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
- July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
- September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
Same birth/death day
- 1836 » Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter and academic († 1912)
- 1843 » Frederick Abberline, English police officer († 1929)
- 1843 » Karl Eduard Heusner, German admiral († 1891)
- 1852 » James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author († 1931)
- 1854 » Fanny Bullock Workman, American mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer († 1925)
- 1860 » Emma Booth, English author († 1903)
- 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
- 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
- 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
- 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
- 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
- 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P19995.php : accessed January 6, 2026), "William Lambert Harrison (1846-1919)".