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Personal data Leonardus Smeets 


Household of Leonardus Smeets

He is married to Petronella Hubertina Wijers.

They got married on August 22, 1881 at Nunhem, he was 29 years old.

RFN 740

Child(ren):

  1. Anna Maria Smeets  1882-1961
  2. Levensloos Smeet  1899-1899


Notes about Leonardus Smeets

Ouders: Peter Smeets & Margaretha Didden

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  • The temperature on April 10, 1852 was about 4.4 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1852: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • February 14 » Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
    • August 3 » Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event.
    • August 20 » Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
    • September 24 » The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27km) from Paris to Trappes.
    • November 4 » Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
    • December 2 » Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
  • The temperature on August 22, 1881 was about 15.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
    • June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
    • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
    • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
    • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
    • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
  • The temperature on February 11, 1941 was between -1.2 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • January 2 » World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
    • May 8 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
    • May 9 » World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
    • June 27 » World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
    • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
    • November 12 » World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12°C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.


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