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Day of marriage September 22, 1859

• The temperature on September 22, 1859 was about 11.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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).
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• In the year 1859: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • January 24 » The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later named Romania) is formed as a personal union under the rule of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
  • May 31 » The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
  • June 28 » The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  • June 30 » French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
  • July 8 » King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
  • August 28 » The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.

Day of death June 5, 1884

• The temperature on June 5, 1884 was about 15.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » John McDouall Stuart, Scottish explorer and surveyor (b. 1815)
• 1899 » Antonio Luna, Filipino general (b. 1866)
• 1900 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1871)
• 1906 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (b. 1842)
• 1910 » O. Henry, American short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)