Family tree Weening » Andries Smit (1838-1896)
Personal data Andries Smit
- He was born on May 23, 1838 in Warfhuizen, gem. Leens (Gr).Source 1
- Profession: boerenknecht.
- He died on August 18, 1896 in Warfhuizen, gem. Leens (Gr), he was 58 years old.Source 2
- A child of Jacob Andries Smit and Kornelia Jacobs Rillema
- This information was last updated on September 15, 2025.
Household of Andries Smit
He is married to Aaltje Meijer.
They got married on February 2, 1865 at Leens (Gr), he was 26 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Jacob Smit 1865-1921
- Annechien Smit 1868-1870
- Willem Smit 1871-1959
- Kornelia Smit 1874-1881
- Geert Smit 1878-1952
- Kornelia Smit 1882-1894
- Pieter Smit 1884-1956
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Historical events
Birthday May 23, 1838
- The temperature on May 23, 1838 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken 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 1838: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- January 6 » Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
- February 17 » Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
- July 4 » The Iowa Territory is organized.
- July 15 » Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
- October 5 » The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.
- November 3 » The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
Day of marriage February 2, 1865
- The temperature on February 2, 1865 was about 5.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 29 » American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
- July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
- August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
- December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by 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 August 18, 1896
- The temperature on August 18, 1896 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
- August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
- August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
- November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
- December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Same birth/death day
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- 1837 » Anatole Mallet, Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor († 1919)
- 1837 » Józef Wieniawski, Polish pianist and composer († 1912)
- 1838 » Amaldus Nielsen, Norwegian painter († 1932)
- 1840 » George Throssell, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia († 1910)
- 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
- 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
- 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
- 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
- 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
- 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
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