The temperature on January 16, 1870 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
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).
January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Day of death April 1, 1926
The temperature on April 1, 1926 was between 0.6 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Check the information Open Archives has about Van Maren.
Check the Wie (onder)zoekt wie? register to see who is (re)searching Van Maren.
The Family tree Van Willigen publication was prepared by Rob van Willigen (contact is not possible).
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Rob van Willigen, "Family tree Van Willigen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-willigen/I8152.php : accessed March 6, 2026), "Gerrit van Maren (1870-1926)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.