Family tree Weening » Pieter Gerrits de Vries (1834-1911)
Personal data Pieter Gerrits de Vries
- He was born on December 30, 1834 in Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
- Profession: landbouwer.
- He died on August 24, 1911 in Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 76 years old.Source 2
- A child of Gerrit Pieters de Vries and Anke Tjibbes Fokkema
- This information was last updated on May 1, 2024.
Household of Pieter Gerrits de Vries
(1) He is married to Antje Jans Hanenburg.
They got married on May 13, 1876 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 41 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Wytske de Vries 1879-1918
(2) He has/had a relationship with Neeltje Boorsma.
The relationship started after 1891.
Child(ren):
- Pieter de Vries 1887-1974
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Historical events
Birthday December 30, 1834
- The temperature on December 30, 1834 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken winderig regen. 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 1834: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- February 3 » Wake Forest University is established (as Wake Forest Institute) in North Carolina, United States.
- March 6 » York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
- March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- July 7 » In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
- October 9 » Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- October 28 » The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
Day of marriage May 13, 1876
- The temperature on May 13, 1876 was about 10.4 °C. The air pressure was 19 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
- July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
- August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
- December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Day of death August 24, 1911
- The temperature on August 24, 1911 was between 9.1 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
- January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
- January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
- July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
- July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
- August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
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