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Christening day March 15, 1840

• The temperature on March 15, 1840 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen windstil. 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 1840: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
  • May 1 » The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
  • May 6 » The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • May 7 » The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
  • May 22 » The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
  • October 7 » Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.

Day of marriage January 5, 1867

• The temperature on January 5, 1867 was about -3.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
  • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
  • October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
  • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
  • December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
  • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

Day of death March 20, 1898

• The temperature on March 20, 1898 was about 3.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
  • July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
  • August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
  • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
  • September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
  • November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)