Family tree Weening » Hendrik Pieters Hoekstra (1793-1869)

Christening day October 20, 1793

• The temperature on October 20, 1793 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: omtrent 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)
• In the year 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 13 » Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
  • June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
  • July 9 » The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
  • August 27 » French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
  • October 12 » The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

Day of marriage February 16, 1822

• The temperature on February 16, 1822 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: winderig betrokken. 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).
• In the year 1822: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 30 » The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
  • June 14 » Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
  • June 18 » Constantine Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.
  • July 8 » Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
  • September 27 » Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
  • October 12 » Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.

Day of death May 10, 1869

• The temperature on May 10, 1869 was about 12.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
  • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
  • April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
  • May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".

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• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
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