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Day of marriage June 1, 1851

• The temperature on June 1, 1851 was about 15.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 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 1851: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
  • February 6 » The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
  • May 1 » Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
  • October 18 » Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
  • November 9 » Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
  • December 22 » India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.

Day of death March 11, 1905

• The temperature on March 11, 1905 was between 4.9 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
  • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
  • September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Tigran Chukhajian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1898 » William Rosecrans, American general and politician (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Jean Casimir-Perier, French lawyer and politician, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
• 1908 » Benjamin Waugh, American minister and activist (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Edmondo De Amicis, Italian journalist and author (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (b. 1826)