Family tree Weening » Durk Cornelis Kuipers (1798-1864)

Christening day October 7, 1798

• The temperature on October 7, 1798 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1798: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 27 » The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
  • May 29 » United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are executed as rebels by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
  • June 5 » The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
  • July 14 » The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
  • August 2 » French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
  • October 12 » Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.

Day of death May 10, 1864

• The temperature on May 10, 1864 was about 6.7 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 27 » American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
  • August 18 » American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
  • October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.
  • November 25 » American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
  • December 16 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)