Family tree Van Knippenberg » Gerrit van Laar (1890-1916)

Personal data Gerrit van Laar 


Household of Gerrit van Laar

He is married to Wilhelmina Knippenberg.

They got married on September 30, 1916 at Epe, Gelderland, Netherlands, he was 26 years old.

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Historical events

Day of death September 30, 1916

  • The temperature on September 30, 1916 was between 4.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
    • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
    • 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.
    • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
    • August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
    • September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
    • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.


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