Family tree Weening » Wiebe Ebbels Nienhuis (1789-1871)

Christening day March 15, 1789

• The temperature on March 15, 1789 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken winderig regen. 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 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 20 » George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
  • June 14 » Mutiny on the Bounty: HMSBounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400km (4,600mi) journey in an open boat.
  • July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
  • August 4 » France: Members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
  • September 2 » The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
  • November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

Day of marriage March 7, 1815

• The temperature on March 7, 1815 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1815: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 1 » Georgetown University's congressional charter is signed into law by President James Madison.
  • March 1 » Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
  • March 9 » Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
  • March 30 » Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
  • 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.
  • November 27 » Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.

Day of death September 18, 1871

• The temperature on September 18, 1871 was about 15.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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 Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
  • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
  • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
  • July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
  • October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805)
• 1872 » Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)
• 1890 » Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820)
• 1896 » Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1905 » George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824)