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Day of marriage September 18, 1858

• The temperature on September 18, 1858 was about 19.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 1, 1856 to March 18, 1858 the cabinet Van der Brugghen, with Mr. J.L.L. van der Brugghen (protestant) as prime minister.
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• In the year 1858: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • January 14 » Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
  • January 25 » The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
  • April 10 » After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
  • August 7 » The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
  • August 20 » Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
  • August 21 » The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois.

Day of death March 11, 1912

• The temperature on March 11, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
  • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
  • November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » William Rosecrans, American general and politician (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Jean Casimir-Perier, French lawyer and politician, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
• 1908 » Benjamin Waugh, American minister and activist (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Edmondo De Amicis, Italian journalist and author (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (b. 1826)
• 1920 » Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1865)