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Personal data Petrus Johannes "Piet" van Gils 

  • Nickname is Piet.
  • He was born on April 30, 1870 in Oosterhout.
    BRON: Gemeente Oosterhout, Brontype boek, Registernaam Geboorteregister 1870, Code OTH_G_1870
    Periode register 1870, Aktenummer 96, Plaats geboorte Oosterhout, Datum geboorte 30-04-1870
    Kind Petrus Johannes van Gils, Kind geslacht m, Vader Nicolaas van Gils, Moeder Elisabeth de Jong
  • He died on September 12, 1947 in Goirle, he was 77 years old.
  • A child of Nicolaas van Gils and Elisabeth de Jong
  • This information was last updated on September 7, 2010.

Household of Petrus Johannes "Piet" van Gils

He is married to Maria Johanna Catharina Schouten.

They got married on October 15, 1894 at Goirle, he was 24 years old.

Gemeente Goirle
Brontype boek
Registernaam Huwelijksregister 1894
Code GLE_H_1894
Periode register 1894
Aktenummer 17
Plaats huwelijk Goirle
Datum huwelijk 15-10-1894
Bruidegom Petrus Johannes van Gils
Bruidegom leeftijd 24 jaar
Bruidegom plaats geboorte Oosterhout
Bruidegom datum geboorte 30-04-1870
Vader bruidegom Nicolaas van Gils
Moeder bruidegom Elisabeth de Jong
Bruid Maria Johanna Catharina Schouten
Bruid leeftijd 23 jaar
Bruid plaats geboorte Goirle
Bruid datum geboorte 09-02-1871
Vader bruid Peter Schouten
Moeder bruid Elisabeth Walschots

Child(ren):

  5. Elisabeth van Gils  1901-1988
  8. Karel van Gils  1906-1907

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Birthday April 30, 1870

  • The temperature on April 30, 1870 was about 11.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 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 1870: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 6 » The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
    • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
    • March 1 » Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
    • June 26 » The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
    • August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
    • September 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.

Day of marriage October 15, 1894

  • The temperature on October 15, 1894 was about 6.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
    • June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
    • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
    • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
    • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
    • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Day of death September 12, 1947

  • The temperature on September 12, 1947 was between 14.6 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • February 28 » February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
    • March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
    • April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
    • April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
    • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
    • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.


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