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Christening day February 3, 1839

• The temperature on February 3, 1839 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent betrokken sneeuw. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • June 3 » In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
  • August 19 » The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
  • August 23 » The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
  • September 9 » John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
  • November 25 » A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
  • November 27 » In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

Day of marriage November 20, 1865

• The temperature on November 20, 1865 was about 9.3 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • June 11 » The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
  • June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks
  • December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.

Day of death January 30, 1923

• The temperature on January 30, 1923 was between 0.5 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
  • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
  • October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
  • October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
  • November 8 » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
  • November 9 » In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 » La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Frederick Blackman, English botanist and physiologist (b. 1866)
• 1948 » Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895)