Family tree Doppenberg » Cornelis van Altena (1847-1871)
Personal data Cornelis van Altena
- He was born on May 21, 1847 in Loosdrecht, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
- He died on April 21, 1871 in Vreeland, he was 23 years old.
- A child of Dirk van Altena and Willemijntje van Sprengen
- This information was last updated on March 20, 2010.
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Birthday May 21, 1847
- The temperature on May 21, 1847 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1847: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- January 16 » John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
- February 23 » Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista: In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- March 29 » Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
- April 16 » Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
- September 12 » Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
- October 16 » The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
Day of death April 21, 1871
- The temperature on April 21, 1871 was about 4.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
- February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
- April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
- June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
- October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
- October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
- December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.
Same birth/death day
- 1843 » Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, and Nobel Prize laureate († 1914)
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- 1844 » Henri Rousseau, French painter († 1910)
- 1850 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist († 1914)
- 1851 » Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate († 1925)
- 1853 » Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician († 1905)
- 1825 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
- 1852 » Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
- 1863 » Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782)
- 1900 » Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)
- 1910 » Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)
- 1918 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892)
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