Olson's Tree » William Craig Wharton (1811-1891)
Personal data William Craig Wharton
Source 1- He was born on May 7, 1811 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
- He died on May 22, 1891 in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, he was 80 years old.
- A child of John Wharton and Nancy Graig
Household of William Craig Wharton
He is married to Nancy Willing Spring.
They got married May 11, 1844, he was 32 years old.
Child(ren):
- Nancy Craig Wharton 1845-1921
- Edward Robbins Wharton 1850-1928
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Historical events
Birthday May 7, 1811
- The temperature on May 7, 1811 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: betrokken. 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 1811: Source: Wikipedia
- May 16 » Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
- May 18 » Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
- August 3 » First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
- November 5 » Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
- November 7 » Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
- November 17 » José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
Day of death May 22, 1891
- The temperature on May 22, 1891 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
- March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
- May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
- August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
- October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
- December 22 » Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
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- 1787 » Jacques Viger, Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal († 1858)
- 1812 » Robert Browning, English poet and playwright († 1889)
- 1833 » Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer († 1897)
- 1836 » Joseph Gurney Cannon, American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1926)
- 1837 » Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer († 1875)
- 1840 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator († 1893)
- 1859 » Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
- 1861 » Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
- 1868 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
- 1885 » Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
- 1901 » Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
- 1910 » Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
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