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Day of marriage June 7, 1847

• The temperature on June 7, 1847 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen . 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 1847: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland; the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
  • February 22 » Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexican troops.
  • July 24 » Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
  • September 13 » Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.
  • October 12 » Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
  • November 29 » The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.

Day of death April 14, 1865

• The temperature on April 14, 1865 was about 18.2 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1843 » Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
• 1864 » Charles Lot Church, American-Canadian politician (b. 1777)
• 1888 » Emil Czyrniański, Polish chemist (b. 1824)
• 1910 » Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1856)
• 1911 » Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1880)
• 1911 » Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)