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Personal data Jan Smit
- He was born on November 18, 1835 in Ede, Gemeente Ede, Gelderland, Nederland.
- Profession: starting 1869 boerenknecht.
- He died on November 19, 1888 in Scherpenzeel, Gelderland, Netherlands, he was 53 years old.
- Death registration.Source 1
- A child of Johannes Peter Smit and Nennetje Loois
- This information was last updated on April 21, 2017.
Household of Jan Smit
(1) He is married to Maria Johanna van Kempen.
They got married on July 21, 1866 at Woudenberg, Utrecht, Netherlands, he was 30 years old.Source 2
Child(ren):
- Nennetje Smit 1866-????
- Aaltje Smit 1868-1868
(2) He is married to Grietje van Vliet.
They got married on November 4, 1869 at Scherpenzeel, Gelderland, Netherlands, he was 33 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Jannigje Smit 1877-????
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Historical events
Birthday November 18, 1835
- The temperature on November 18, 1835 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt bui regen. 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 1835: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- January 24 » Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
- February 15 » Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect.
- May 5 » The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
- September 15 » HMSBeagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
- September 20 » The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
- November 27 » James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
Day of marriage November 4, 1869
- The temperature on November 4, 1869 was about 6.6 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 1869: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
- April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
- September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
- October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
- November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched
Day of death November 19, 1888
- The temperature on November 19, 1888 was about 10.0 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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)
- 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 Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
- June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
- August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
- September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
- October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
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