Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Jacob Christoffel PRETORIUS (1869-1939)

Personal data Jacob Christoffel PRETORIUS 


Household of Jacob Christoffel PRETORIUS

He is married to Johanna Fredrika VENTER.

They got married on July 16, 1888 at Kroonstad, he was 19 years old.


Child(ren):

  6. Philippus PRETORIUS  1911-1976

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    Birthday May 21, 1869

    • The temperature on May 21, 1869 was about 10.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
      • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
      • May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
      • October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
      • October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
      • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
      • November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

    Christening day July 11, 1869

    • The temperature on July 11, 1869 was about 22.4 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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.
      • March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
      • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
      • May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
      • June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
      • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

    Day of marriage July 16, 1888

    • The temperature on July 16, 1888 was about 16.3 °C. There was 29 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
      • March 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
      • 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.
      • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
      • July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
      • August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
      • October 29 » The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
    

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