Descendants Heeres » Jacobus van Apeldoorn (1786-1864)

Christening day December 17, 1786

• The temperature on December 17, 1786 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
  • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
  • August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
  • August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
  • August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
  • September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.

Day of marriage April 26, 1838

• The temperature on April 26, 1838 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1838: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
  • June 10 » Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
  • August 18 » The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
  • September 1 » Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British origin in South America, is established.
  • September 3 » Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
  • September 18 » The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.

Day of death January 26, 1864

• The temperature on January 26, 1864 was about 1.7 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
  • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
  • June 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
  • October 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
  • November 29 » American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
  • December 16 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1849 » Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, playwright, and physician (b. 1803)
• 1855 » Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (b. 1808)
• 1860 » Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
• 1869 » Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier; Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1846)
• 1870 » Victor de Broglie, French politician, 9th Prime Minister of France (b. 1785)
• 1885 » Edward Davy, English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)