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Personal data Gerard Houben 


Household of Gerard Houben

He is married to Joanna Hubertina Wijnen.

They got married on January 17, 1874 at Elsloo, Limburg, Netherlands, he was 31 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Anna Elisabeth Houben  1880-1925 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerard Houben

Petrus Houben
1767-1831
Barbara Schepers
1775-1843
Gerardus Pepels
1758-1836
Maria Cornelia Beckers
1768-1829
Joanna Pepels
1803-1877

Gerard Houben
1842-1916

1874

Joanna Hubertina Wijnen
1845-1912

Anna Elisabeth Houben
1880-1925

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    Historical events

    Birthday January 28, 1842

    • The temperature on January 28, 1842 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 year 1842: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
      • January 13 » Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
      • February 7 » Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
      • March 9 » The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
      • March 28 » First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
      • March 30 » Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
      • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

    Day of marriage January 17, 1874

    • The temperature on January 17, 1874 was about 5.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
    • 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 1874: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • February 21 » The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
      • June 29 » Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
      • July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
      • July 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
      • August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
      • November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

    Day of death April 11, 1916

    • The temperature on April 11, 1916 was between 0.2 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
      • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
      • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
      • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
      • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
      • September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
      • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

    Day of burial April 14, 1916

    • The temperature on April 14, 1916 was between 2.2 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
      • January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
      • February 29 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
      • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
      • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
      • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
      • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
    

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