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Day of marriage September 13, 1844

• The temperature on September 13, 1844 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. 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 1844: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • May 23 » Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
  • May 24 » Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
  • June 6 » The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
  • July 3 » The last pair of great auks is killed.
  • August 8 » The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
  • December 21 » The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.

Day of death March 17, 1883

• The temperature on March 17, 1883 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
  • May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
  • August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
  • August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
  • October 22 » Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram, Vienna, Austria, first electric tram powered by overhead wire.

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• 1849 » William II, Dutch sovereign prince and king (b. 1792)
• 1853 » Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803)
• 1871 » Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (b. 1802)
• 1875 » Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832)
• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)