Family tree Eilander » Martinus Blok (1855-????)
Personal data Martinus Blok
- He was born on December 5, 1855 in Heerde (buurtschap Hoorn).Source 1
- A child of Arend Blok and Maria Hogeboom
- This information was last updated on December 21, 2010.
Household of Martinus Blok
He is married to Aaltje van Ark.
They got married on April 2, 1894 at Holland Michigan, he was 38 years old.
Notes about Martinus Blok
ca 1880 geimmigreerd naar Amerika
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Birthday December 5, 1855
- The temperature on December 5, 1855 was about 3.5 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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).
- From April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
- In the year 1855: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
- February 12 » Michigan State University is established.
- February 14 » Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
- March 2 » Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- March 30 » Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
- July 4 » The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published In Brooklyn.
- September 9 » Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
Day of marriage April 2, 1894
- The temperature on April 2, 1894 was about 9.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
- April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
- May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
- August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
- September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
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- 1849 » Eduard Seler, German anthropologist, ethnohistorian, linguist, and academic († 1922)
- 1855 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and ethnographer († 1942)
- 1859 » John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand († 1935)
- 1861 » Konstantin Korovin, Russian-French painter and set designer († 1939)
- 1862 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist († 1900)
- 1863 » Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France († 1933)
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