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Personal data Hendrik Hendriks Westra
- He was born on December 20, 1850 in Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
- He died on October 19, 1917 in Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 66 years old.Source 2
- A child of Hendrik Tjipkes Westra and Hiltje Haizes van der Veen
- This information was last updated on July 30, 2024.
Household of Hendrik Hendriks Westra
(1) He is married to Hinke Hendriks Elzinga.
They got married on September 15, 1881 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 30 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Hendrik Westra 1883-1972
- Tjitske Westra 1887-1959
(2) He is married to Baukje van der Meer.
They got married on November 19, 1898 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 47 years old.Source 4
Child(ren):
- Jan Westra 1901-1969
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Birthday December 20, 1850
- The temperature on December 20, 1850 was about 1.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1850: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- May 15 » The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing differences" between Great Britain and Argentina.
- June 29 » Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- July 10 » U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
- September 9 » California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- September 9 » The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
- September 29 » The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
Day of marriage November 19, 1898
- The temperature on November 19, 1898 was about 1.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
- June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
- July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
- August 24 » Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
- September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
Day of death October 19, 1917
- The temperature on October 19, 1917 was between 1.8 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
- March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
- May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
- June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
- October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
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