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Household of Abraham Backer

He is married to Elisabeth Johanna van Engelen.

They got married in the year 1828 at Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, he was 36 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Maarten Backer  1833-1869 
  2. Wilhelmina Backer  1838-1912
  3. Willem Backer  1841-????

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  • The temperature on July 23, 1791 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
    • September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
    • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
    • November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
    • December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
    • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
  • The temperature on August 3, 1791 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
    • March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
    • March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
    • August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
    • September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
    • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
  • The temperature on March 16, 1851 was about 5.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 1851: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
    • May 1 » Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
    • September 11 » Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
    • September 15 » Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia.
    • November 9 » Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
    • December 8 » Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.


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