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Christening day September 4, 1841

• The temperature on September 4, 1841 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1841: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
  • January 26 » James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point, establishing British Hong Kong.
  • March 9 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
  • April 6 » U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison's death.
  • June 28 » The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
  • October 16 » Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.

Day of marriage January 30, 1867

• The temperature on January 30, 1867 was about 8.7 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
  • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
  • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

Day of death October 8, 1870

• The temperature on October 8, 1870 was about 15.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  • February 28 » The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
  • August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  • September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
  • October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1821 » Juan O'Donojú, last Spanish ruler of Mexico (b. 1762)
• 1834 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)