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Personal data Willempje van de BEEK 

  • She was born on September 2, 1831 in Lunteren (Gelderland, The Netherlands).
  • She died on September 14, 1896 in Wageningen (Gelderland, The Netherlands), she was 65 years old.
  • This information was last updated on January 3, 2017.

Household of Willempje van de BEEK

She is married to Karel Arend POTHOVEN.

They got married on April 13, 1872 at Ede (Gelderland, The Netherlands), she was 40 years old.


Notes about Willempje van de BEEK


Ouders Gijsbert Bessel van de BEEK en Evertje Willems OTTEN

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Historical events

Birthday September 2, 1831

  • The temperature on September 2, 1831 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: veel regen . 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 1831: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 24 » The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
    • March 29 » Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
    • August 23 » Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
    • October 9 » Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
    • November 11 » In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
    • December 5 » Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.

Day of death September 14, 1896

  • The temperature on September 14, 1896 was about 14.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
    • February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
    • May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
    • June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
    • June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
    • September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.


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