Descendants Hemerik-Broekhuizen-Huner-Koper-Barink » Gerrit van Dam (1797-1871)

Personal data Gerrit van Dam 


Household of Gerrit van Dam

He is married to Catharina Plasmeijer.

They got married on November 20, 1817 at Oegstgeest, he was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Willem van Dam  1822-1893
  4. Cornelia van Dam  1824-1890 
  5. Johannes van Dam  1826-1885 
  6. Theodorus van Dam  1828-????
  7. Franciscus van Dam  1831-1918
  8. Cornelia van Dam  1833-1834
  9. Maria van Dam  1833-1833
  10. Sara van Dam  1835-1889 
  11. Massie van Dam  1838-1920 

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Historical events

Day of marriage November 20, 1817

  • The temperature on November 20, 1817 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken winderig. 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 1817: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
    • April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
    • June 5 » The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
    • October 16 » Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
    • October 17 » The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.
    • November 3 » The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.

Day of death September 18, 1871

  • The temperature on September 18, 1871 was about 15.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
    • March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
    • April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
    • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
    • August 29 » Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
    • September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.

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