Family tree Kunnen/Karman » Pieter Leek (1838-1920)

Day of marriage May 8, 1859

• The temperature on May 8, 1859 was about 10.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • February 5 » Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
  • March 2 » The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins.
  • May 17 » Members of the Melbourne Football Club codified the first rules of Australian rules football.
  • June 30 » French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
  • September 17 » Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."
  • October 22 » Spain declares war on Morocco.

Day of death April 27, 1920

• The temperature on April 27, 1920 was between 5.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
  • January 19 » The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
  • February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
  • May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
  • August 15 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
  • August 25 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
• 1915 » John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
• 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
• 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)