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Day of marriage May 5, 1859

• The temperature on May 5, 1859 was about 11.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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).
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• In the year 1859: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
  • March 2 » The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins.
  • May 31 » The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
  • June 30 » French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
  • July 30 » First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
  • September 17 » Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."

Day of death January 6, 1907

• The temperature on January 6, 1907 was between 1.7 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • December 8 » King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
  • December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1902 » Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)
• 1913 » Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)