Family tree Weening » Tamme Zwama (1842-1917)
Personal data Tamme Zwama
- He was born on August 21, 1842 in Doezum, gem. Grootegast (Gr).Source 1
- Profession: boerenknecht.
- He died on March 21, 1917 in Lutjegast, gem. Grootegast (Gr), he was 74 years old.Source 2
- A child of Jacobje Jans Zwama
- This information was last updated on June 15, 2023.
Household of Tamme Zwama
He is married to Nake Siersema.
They got married on May 20, 1870 at Grootegast (Gr), he was 27 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Klaas Zwama 1887-1955
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Historical events
Birthday August 21, 1842
- The temperature on August 21, 1842 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1842: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- February 21 » John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
- March 9 » The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- March 17 » The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed.
- March 30 » Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
- May 16 » The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.
- August 1 » The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Day of marriage May 20, 1870
- The temperature on May 20, 1870 was about 24.3 °C. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 34%. 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.
- February 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
- September 1 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
- September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
- September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
- October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
Day of death March 21, 1917
- The temperature on March 21, 1917 was between -1.5 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
- June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
- July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
- November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
- December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
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- 1915 » Frederick Winslow Taylor, American golfer, tennis player, and engineer (b. 1856)
- 1920 » Evelina Haverfield, British suffragette and aid worker (b. 1867)
- 1932 » Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)
- 1934 » Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1878)
- 1934 » Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
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