Family tree Seelemeijer » Gerrit Jan Brakels (1797-1878)

Day of marriage August 20, 1829

• The temperature on August 20, 1829 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: bui onweer. 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 1829: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 22 » In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
  • April 7 » Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
  • April 25 » Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
  • May 2 » After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMSChallenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
  • September 29 » The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
  • October 1 » South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa. It will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.

Day of death November 3, 1878

• The temperature on November 3, 1878 was about 9.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • 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.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

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• 1850 » William E. Shannon, Irish-born American politician (b. 1821/1822)
• 1858 » Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and author (b. 1807)
• 1869 » Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1792)
• 1890 » Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1900 » Carrie Steele Logan, American philanthropist, founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States (b. ~1829)