Family tree Weening » Johannes Piers Glas (1793-1865)

Christening day September 29, 1793

• The temperature on September 29, 1793 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » Second Partition of Poland.
  • June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
  • September 5 » French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
  • October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
  • November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
  • December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.

Day of marriage May 21, 1815

• The temperature on May 21, 1815 was about 10.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt regen. 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 1815: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 15 » War of 1812: American frigate USSPresident, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
  • February 26 » Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
  • March 1 » Georgetown University's congressional charter is signed into law by President James Madison.
  • June 18 » Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
  • July 9 » Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
  • December 11 » The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.

Day of death January 11, 1865

• The temperature on January 11, 1865 was about 4.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • March 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
  • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
  • May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1843 » Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779)
• 1866 » Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818)
• 1866 » John Woolley, English minister and academic (b. 1816)
• 1867 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812)
• 1882 » Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1891 » Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809)