Family tree Van Willigen » Reijer Rees (1792-1870)
Personal data Reijer Rees
- He was born in the year 1792 in Vlaardingen.
- He was christened on January 29, 1792 in Vlaardingen.
- Profession: Zeeman, winkelier.
- He died on March 5, 1870 in Vlaardingen, he was 78 years old.
- A child of Gillis Jaspersz Rees and Elisabeth Rijersd van Kampen
- This information was last updated on May 20, 2012.
Household of Reijer Rees
He is married to Jannetje de Willigen.
They got married on June 5, 1816 at Vlaardingen, he was 24 years old.
Child(ren):
- Jillis Rees 1819-1826
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Historical events
Christening day January 29, 1792
- The temperature on January 29, 1792 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
- January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
- April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
- May 15 » War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
- June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
Day of marriage June 5, 1816
- The temperature on June 5, 1816 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen half bewolkt bui winderig. 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 year 1816: Source: Wikipedia
- April 10 » The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
- April 14 » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
- May 2 » Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
- June 19 » Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- July 9 » Argentina declares independence from Spain.
- July 27 » Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
Day of death March 5, 1870
- The temperature on March 5, 1870 was about 5.9 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
- In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- January 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- January 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
- February 3 » The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
- June 22 » The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
- July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
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- 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
- 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
- 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
- 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
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Rob van Willigen, "Family tree Van Willigen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-willigen/I10106.php : accessed March 16, 2026), "Reijer Rees (1792-1870)".