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Personal data Douwe Bekius 


Household of Douwe Bekius

He is married to Sytske Leep.

They got married on May 26, 1881 at Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Gerritje Bekius  1882-1959 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Douwe Bekius

Douwe Bekius
1857-1923

1881

Sytske Leep
1856-1926

Gerritje Bekius
1882-1959

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Birthday May 15, 1857

  • The temperature on May 15, 1857 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. 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 July 1, 1856 to March 18, 1858 the cabinet Van der Brugghen, with Mr. J.L.L. van der Brugghen (protestant) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1857: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • March 3 » Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
    • May 6 » The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Indian Independence.
    • June 1 » Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
    • July 27 » Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men hold out for eight days against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces.
    • August 24 » The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
    • October 5 » The city of Anaheim, California is founded.

Day of marriage May 26, 1881

  • The temperature on May 26, 1881 was about 21.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
    • April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
    • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
    • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
    • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
    • November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.

Day of death October 7, 1923

  • The temperature on October 7, 1923 was between 6.1 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
    • June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
    • September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
    • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
    • October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
    • October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
    • November 8 » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.


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