Vennik family tree » Cornelis Johannesz Sagius (1762-1854)

Christening day July 9, 1762

• The temperature on July 9, 1762 was about 18.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen geheel 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1762: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
  • May 5 » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
  • May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
  • July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
  • September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
  • October 6 » Seven Years' War: The British Capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

Day of marriage December 14, 1788

• The temperature on December 14, 1788 was about -11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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 1788: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • January 9 » Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.
  • January 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
  • March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
  • May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
  • June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.

Day of death August 11, 1854

• The temperature on August 11, 1854 was about 17.2 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
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  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).
• From April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
• In the year 1854: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • February 23 » The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
  • March 20 » The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
  • July 28 » USSConstellation(1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.
  • September 27 » The steamship SSArctic sinks with 300 people on board.
  • December 8 » In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
  • December 18 » The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1851 » Lorenz Oken, German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (b. 1779)
• 1854 » Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798)
• 1868 » Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1815)
• 1886 » Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)
• 1890 » John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)
• 1892 » Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)