Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Willem Cornelis PRETORIUS (1879-1957)

Personal data Willem Cornelis PRETORIUS 


Household of Willem Cornelis PRETORIUS

He is married to Elsie Maria Magdalena SWANEPOEL.

They got married on January 31, 1905 at Klerksdorp, he was 26 years old.


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    Historical events

    Day of marriage January 31, 1905

    • The temperature on January 31, 1905 was between 3.1 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
      • January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
      • August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
      • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
      • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
      • September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
      • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

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