Family tree Petit » Willem van Dam (1841-1894)

Personal data Willem van Dam 


Household of Willem van Dam

He is married to Hermijntje den Ouden.

They got married on September 29, 1864 at Lekkerkerk, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Martijntje van Dam  1868-1940
  3. Antonie van Dam  1870-1871
  4. Antonie van Dam  1872-1872
  5. Wilhelmina van Dam  1875-???? 
  6. Antonia van Dam  1877-1949
  7. Teunis van Dam  1879-????

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Historical events

Day of marriage September 29, 1864

  • The temperature on September 29, 1864 was about 13.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
    • July 19 » Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
    • September 29 » The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
    • October 2 » American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
    • November 25 » American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
    • November 29 » American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

Day of death November 6, 1894

  • The temperature on November 6, 1894 was about 6.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
    • February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
    • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
    • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
    • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
    • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.


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