Family tree Van Geel » Willem LIPS (1774-1865)

Christening day December 16, 1774

• The temperature on December 16, 1774 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: dampig regen. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1774: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
  • May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
  • September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
  • September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
  • September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
  • October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".

Day of marriage May 2, 1812

• The temperature on May 2, 1812 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken. 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 year 1812: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 11 » Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
  • June 23 » War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
  • August 24 » Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
  • November 3 » Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
  • November 14 » Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.
  • December 29 » USSConstitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMSJava off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.

Day of death January 22, 1865

• The temperature on January 22, 1865 was about -0.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks

Source: Wikipedia

• 1840 » Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1850 » Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 » Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)