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Personal data Philippus Jacobus Stephanus PRETORIUS 


Household of Philippus Jacobus Stephanus PRETORIUS

He is married to Maria Cornelia du PLESSIS.

They got married on June 26, 1871 at Bethulie, Geref Kerk, he was 20 years old.


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  • The temperature on January 30, 1851 was about 5.8 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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.
    • May 1 » Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
    • May 21 » Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
    • August 22 » The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
    • September 15 » Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia.
    • October 24 » William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
    • December 8 » Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.
  • The temperature on June 26, 1871 was about 15.0 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
    • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
    • April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
    • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
    • July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
    • December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.
  • The temperature on January 30, 1933 was between -3.8 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
    • January 3 » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
    • February 3 » Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
    • April 4 » U.S. Navy airship USSAkron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
    • June 16 » The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.
    • August 24 » The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
    • November 8 » Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.


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Gert Esterhuizen, "Family tree Eric Esterhuizen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eric-esterhuizen/I6342.php : accessed February 22, 2026), "Philippus Jacobus Stephanus PRETORIUS (1851-1933)".