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Day of marriage November 13, 1837

• The temperature on November 13, 1837 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen bui. 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
  • May 10 » Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
  • June 11 » The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
  • July 4 » Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
  • November 7 » In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
  • November 17 » An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.

Day of death March 27, 1885

• The temperature on March 27, 1885 was about 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
  • March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
  • April 2 » Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
  • September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
  • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
  • December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » Edgar Quinet, French historian and academic (b. 1803)
• 1875 » Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Peruvian soldier and politician, President of Peru (b. 1808)
• 1878 » George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
• 1886 » Henry Taylor, English poet and playwright (b. 1800)
• 1889 » John Bright, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)