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Personal data Godschalk Horatius van Knijff 


Household of Godschalk Horatius van Knijff

He is married to Sytske Wypkes de Jong.

They got married on May 11, 1870 at Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 33 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Godschalk Horatius van Knijff

Regnerus Theodorus de Cock
1774-1830
Catharina Bakkerus
1764-????

Godschalk Horatius van Knijff
1837-1911

1870

Sytske Wypkes de Jong
1840-1911


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1837, Dantumadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1911, Achtkarspelen
  3. Huwelijksregister 1870, Tietjerksteradeel

Historical events

Birthday March 22, 1837

  • The temperature on March 22, 1837 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt . 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 8 » Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
    • May 10 » Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
    • June 20 » Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
    • July 4 » Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
    • November 22 » Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
    • December 17 » A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.

Day of marriage May 11, 1870

  • The temperature on May 11, 1870 was about 18.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 48%. 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.
    • May 14 » The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
    • July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
    • August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
    • September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
    • December 12 » Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.

Day of death March 10, 1911

  • The temperature on March 10, 1911 was between 1.7 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
    • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
    • September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
    • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
    • December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
    • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.


Same birth/death day

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