Family tree Looije(n) » Willem Laurier (1799-1878)

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Household of Willem Laurier

He is married to Megcheltje Looijen.

They got married on November 8, 1855 at Wageningen (GL), he was 56 years old.Source 2

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Sources

  1. Overlijdens akte 112 dd 16-11-1878 (Family Search Zeist Overlijden 1863-1882 Image 298)
  2. Huweliijks akte 34 dd 8-11-1855 (Family Search Wageningen Huwelijken 1853-1860 Image 130)

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Historical events

  • The temperature on November 15, 1878 was about 3.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
    • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
    • June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
    • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
    • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
    • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.


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