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Christening day August 12, 1832

• The temperature on August 12, 1832 was about 21.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1832: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • June 7 » Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
  • June 7 » The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
  • July 10 » U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
  • July 19 » The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
  • August 27 » Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
  • November 21 » Wabash College is founded in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Day of marriage April 15, 1871

• The temperature on April 15, 1871 was about 12.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
  • March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
  • May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
  • June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
  • August 29 » Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).

Day of death February 12, 1912

• The temperature on February 12, 1912 was between 0.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
  • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

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