Family tree Piessens » Petrus Piessens (1826-1876)
Personal data Petrus Piessens
- He was born on December 11, 1826 in Nieuw-Vossemeer, Nederland.
- He died on January 29, 1876 in Steenbergen, he was 49 years old.
- A child of Jacobus Piessens and Maria Meeus
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Birthday December 11, 1826
- The temperature on December 11, 1826 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: betrokken zwaar mist. 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 1826: Source: Wikipedia
- March 13 » Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
- June 21 » Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
- August 18 » Major Gordon Laing becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
- September 11 » Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.
- December 21 » American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
- December 24 » The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
Day of death January 29, 1876
- The temperature on January 29, 1876 was about -1.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 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)
- From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
- April 22 » The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of Major League Baseball.
- May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
- August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
Same birth/death day
- 1803 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic († 1869)
- 1810 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist († 1857)
- 1830 » Kamehameha V of Hawaii († 1872)
- 1837 » Webster Paulson, English civil engineer († 1887)
- 1838 » John Labatt, Canadian brewer and businessman († 1915)
- 1843 » Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1910)
- 1829 » Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French captain and politician (b. 1755)
- 1870 » Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
- 1871 » Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
- 1888 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
- 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
- 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
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The Family tree Piessens publication was prepared by Wilma Bruin van Gurp.
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Wilma Bruin van Gurp, "Family tree Piessens", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-piessens/I46.php : accessed February 16, 2026), "Petrus Piessens (1826-1876)".