Descendants van de Vlag1 » Gerrit Hofenk (1857-1921)
Personal data Gerrit Hofenk
- He was born on February 12, 1857 in Soeren (Rheden).
- He died on February 19, 1921 in Rheden, he was 64 years old.
- A child of Adam Hofenk and Maria/Barghege Berghege
- This information was last updated on November 7, 2024.
Household of Gerrit Hofenk
He is married to Geertruida Hindriks.
They got married on August 24, 1882 at Rheden, he was 25 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- Agatha Hofenk 1884-????
- Geertruida Janna Hofenk 1886-????
- Derkje Hofenk 1890-????
- Berend Hofenk 1890-????
- Derkje Maria Hofenk 1891-????
- Roelof Hendrik Hofenk 1894-????
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Historical events
Birthday February 12, 1857
- The temperature on February 12, 1857 was about 6.5 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 1, 1856 to March 18, 1858 the cabinet Van der Brugghen, with Mr. J.L.L. van der Brugghen (protestant) as prime minister.
- In the year 1857: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
- May 10 » Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
- June 1 » Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- June 26 » The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- July 27 » Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men hold out for eight days against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces.
- September 12 » The SSCentral America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
- December 31 » Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.
Day of marriage August 24, 1882
- The temperature on August 24, 1882 was about 13.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1882: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- April 25 » French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
- May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
- September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
- September 5 » The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
- October 16 » The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
Day of death February 19, 1921
- The temperature on February 19, 1921 was between -1.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
- February 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
- March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
- March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
- June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
- July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
- December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
Same birth/death day
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- 1861 » Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author († 1937)
- 1866 » Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher († 1938)
- 1869 » Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor († 1884)
- 1870 » Marie Lloyd, English actress and singer († 1922)
- 1897 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
- 1915 » Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
- 1916 » Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
- 1927 » Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
- 1928 » George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (b. 1856)
- 1936 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)
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