Family tree Schmidt » Engel Helena "Lena" Wagenknegt (1793-1874)

Christening day June 6, 1793

• The temperature on June 6, 1793 was about 11.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 9 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
  • August 8 » The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
  • August 12 » The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
  • October 13 » French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
  • October 16 » War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
  • November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.

Day of marriage April 5, 1815

• The temperature on April 5, 1815 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt 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 1815: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 3 » Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
  • January 13 » War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
  • January 15 » War of 1812: American frigate USSPresident, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
  • March 1 » Georgetown University's congressional charter is signed into law by President James Madison.
  • March 1 » Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
  • March 20 » After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

Day of death June 30, 1874

• The temperature on June 30, 1874 was about 20.4 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1874: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 28 » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
  • May 16 » A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
  • May 27 » The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
  • July 8 » The Mounties begin their March West.
  • July 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
  • August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

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• 1857 » Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1802)
• 1882 » Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
• 1882 » Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
• 1890 » Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American organist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1908 » Thomas Hill, American painter (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)