Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Dirk Jacobus PRETORIUS (1845-1912)

Personal data Dirk Jacobus PRETORIUS 


Household of Dirk Jacobus PRETORIUS

He is married to Magdalena Aletta Martha PRETORIUS.

They got married on February 20, 1871 at Middelburg, Cape, he was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jan Albertus PRETORIUS  1872-???? 

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    Historical events

    Day of marriage February 20, 1871

    • The temperature on February 20, 1871 was about 8.7 °C. The air pressure was 30 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
      • January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
      • 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.
      • May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
      • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
      • July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
      • July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.

    Day of death September 22, 1912

    • The temperature on September 22, 1912 was between 3.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
      • January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
      • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
      • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
      • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
      • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
      • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
    

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