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).
January 20 » Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
January 26 » James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point, establishing British Hong Kong.
March 9 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
April 6 » U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison's death.
June 28 » The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
October 16 » Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.
Day of marriage June 24, 1864
The temperature on June 24, 1864 was about 11.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. Source: KNMI
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.
February 27 » American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
April 17 » American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
July 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.
November 11 » American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.
Day of death January 18, 1912
The temperature on January 18, 1912 was between -6.4 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
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