Family tree Terwal » Aafke Ygles Mellema (1786-1861)

Christening day May 7, 1786

• The temperature on May 7, 1786 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
  • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
  • June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
  • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
  • November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
  • December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

Day of death April 10, 1861

• The temperature on April 10, 1861 was about 10.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Liberal forces supporting Benito Juárez enter Mexico City.
  • February 23 » President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
  • September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1806 » Horatio Gates, English-American general (b. 1727)
• 1813 » Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
• 1823 » Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (b. 1757)
• 1871 » Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1789)
• 1904 » Isabella II, Spanish queen (b. 1830)
• 1909 » Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (b. 1837)