Family tree Robbertsen-Dierks Limburg » Jannetje van Delden (1792-1865)

Christening day December 16, 1792

• The temperature on December 16, 1792 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1792: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
  • May 17 » The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
  • September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
  • September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
  • September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
  • October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

Day of death December 23, 1865

• The temperature on December 23, 1865 was about -1.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1834 » Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and demographer (b. 1766)
• 1884 » John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1902 » Frederick Temple, English archbishop and academic (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, last emperor of the Gaza Empire (b. c.1850)
• 1912 » Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (b. 1850)