Family tree Van Knippenberg » Gerardus Coolen (1851-????)
Personal data Gerardus Coolen
- He was born on February 20, 1851 in Ophoven, Limburg, Belgium.
- A child of Peter Coolen and Maria Baens
Household of Gerardus Coolen
He is married to Elisabeth Thijssen.
They got married on April 7, 1877 at Kinrooi, Limburg, Belgium, he was 26 years old.
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Birthday February 20, 1851
- The temperature on February 20, 1851 was about 6.6 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
- March 11 » The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
- May 1 » Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
- May 15 » The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
- May 21 » Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
- November 9 » Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- December 24 » The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
Day of marriage April 7, 1877
- The temperature on April 7, 1877 was about 9.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- 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 1877: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
- May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- August 9 » Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
- October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
- November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
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- 1844 » Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer († 1909)
- 1844 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1906)
- 1848 » E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist († 1909)
- 1857 » A. P. Lucas, English cricketer († 1923)
- 1866 » Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum († 1936)
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