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Personal data Sophia Vens 

  • She was born in the year 1801 in Utrecht.
  • She died on August 29, 1865 in Utrecht, she was 64 years old.
  • This information was last updated on December 2, 2014.

Household of Sophia Vens

She is married to Gijsbert van Zijl.

They got married on October 27, 1819, she was 18 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Michiel van Zijl  1820-1888 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Sophia Vens

Sophia Vens
1801-1865

1819

Gijsbert van Zijl
1800-1871

Michiel van Zijl
1820-1888

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Day of marriage October 27, 1819

  • The temperature on October 27, 1819 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt 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 1819: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 17 » The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
    • February 19 » British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
    • June 20 » The U.S. vessel SSSavannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
    • July 3 » The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
    • August 6 » Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
    • December 14 » Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.

Day of death August 29, 1865

  • The temperature on August 29, 1865 was about 16.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
    • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
    • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
    • April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
    • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
    • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.


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