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Day of marriage June 17, 1851

• The temperature on June 17, 1851 was about 15.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
  • March 11 » The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
  • May 21 » Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
  • August 12 » Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
  • December 2 » French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
  • December 8 » Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.

Day of death April 13, 1910

• The temperature on April 13, 1910 was between 8.6 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
  • May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
  • November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1909 » Whitley Stokes, Anglo-Irish lawyer and scholar (b. 1830)
• 1910 » William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish-English painter and educator (b. 1835)
• 1911 » George Washington Glick, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
• 1911 » John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
• 1912 » Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1856)