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Personal data Jan Rook 


Household of Jan Rook

He is married to Jantien Glazenberg.

They got married on January 24, 1821 at Meppel, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Neeltje Rook  1821-????
  2. Arend Rook  1822-1872
  3. Annechien Rook  1824-????
  4. Klaziena Rook  1826-1827
  5. Klaziena Rook  1828-1831
  6. Hendrika Rook  1830-1884
  7. Jentien Rook  1833-1834
  8. Jentien Rook  1835-????
  9. Femmigje Rook  1838-????
  10. Klazina Rook  1840-1876 
  11. Maria Rook  1843-????

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Historical events

Birthday September 30, 1792

  • The temperature on September 30, 1792 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
    • January 9 » Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed.
    • February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
    • May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
    • June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
    • September 11 » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
    • September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

Day of marriage January 24, 1821

  • The temperature on January 24, 1821 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: zwaar mist. 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 1821: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 24 » Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala.
    • May 8 » Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
    • August 24 » The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
    • September 23 » Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
    • September 28 » The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
    • December 1 » José Núñez de Cáceres got the independence of the Dominican Republic of Spain and named it the new territory as Republic of Spanish Haiti.

Day of death June 7, 1878

  • The temperature on June 7, 1878 was about 21.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
    • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
    • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
    • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
    • November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
    • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.


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