Family tree Jacobs » Harmans van Wijk (1845-1933)
Personal data Harmans van Wijk
- He was born on October 20, 1845 in Odoorn.
Tijdstip: 15:00
- Birth registration on October 21, 1845.
Event shared with Egbert Hendriks Oortwijn (witness), Egbert Huizing (witness)
- Profession: landbouwer.
- He died on October 17, 1933 in Laude Vlagtwedde, he was 87 years old.
- A child of Geert Harms van Wijk and Zwaantje Stevens
- This information was last updated on April 22, 2020.
Is associated with Henderika van Wijk's event on September 28, 1874.
Household of Harmans van Wijk
(1) He is married to Harmke Potze.
Permission for the marriage has been obtained in Vlagtwedde on March 8, 1874.
They got married on March 24, 1874 at Vlagtwedde Groningen Nederland, he was 28 years old.Event shared with Gert Zwaans (witness), Klaas Hulsker (witness), Jan Tammes (witness), Cornelius Karsien van Oosten (witness)
Child(ren):
- Henderika van Wijk 1874-1957
- Zwaantje van Wijk 1880-1954
(2) He is married to Klasina Jansen.
They got married on April 11, 1891 at Vlagtwedde Groningen Nederland, he was 45 years old.
Event shared with Harm Schuring (witness), Jurjen de Grooth (witness), Lambertus Dilling (witness), Harm Christiaan Pals (witness)
Child(ren):
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Historical events
Birthday October 20, 1845
- The temperature on October 20, 1845 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen dampig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1845: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- March 1 » United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
- March 3 » Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- May 19 » Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
- July 4 » Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
- July 19 » Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan begins early in the morning and is subdued that afternoon. The fire kills four firefighters and 26 civilians and destroys 345 buildings.
- December 27 » Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
Day of marriage April 11, 1891
- The temperature on April 11, 1891 was about 4.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
- March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
- May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
- May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
- May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
- July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
Day of death October 17, 1933
- The temperature on October 17, 1933 was between 4.4 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
- March 9 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
- March 13 » Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday" mandated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act.
- April 1 » The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
- September 3 » Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
- November 16 » The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
- December 15 » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
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- 1859 » John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher († 1952)
- 1864 » James F. Hinkle, American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico († 1951)
- 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
- 1928 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
- 1931 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
- 1937 » J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
- 1938 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
- 1948 » Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
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