Family tree Apool » Willem Westera (1793-1889)

Christening day February 17, 1793

• The temperature on February 17, 1793 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken dampig. 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.
  • September 17 » War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
  • October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
  • November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
  • December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
  • December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.

Day of marriage October 13, 1815

• The temperature on October 13, 1815 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: half bewolkt omtrent helder dampig. 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
  • March 30 » Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
  • April 23 » The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
  • June 1 » Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
  • July 15 » Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMSBellerophon.
  • October 15 » Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
  • December 25 » The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.

Day of death May 12, 1889

• The temperature on May 12, 1889 was about 15.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
  • May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
  • June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  • November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
  • November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

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• 1864 » J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
• 1867 » Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)