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Personal data Franciscus Antonius van Velsen 


Household of Franciscus Antonius van Velsen

He is married to Johanna Elisabeth de Graaff.

They got married on October 19, 1898 at Haarlem, he was 27 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday August 13, 1871

  • The temperature on August 13, 1871 was about 30.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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.
    • January 19 » Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
    • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
    • June 10 » Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
    • July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
    • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
    • December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

Day of marriage October 19, 1898

  • The temperature on October 19, 1898 was about 13.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
    • May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
    • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
    • August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
    • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
    • October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

Day of death November 29, 1904

  • The temperature on November 29, 1904 was between 1.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
    • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
    • April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
    • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
    • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
    • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).


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