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Personal data Fopkje van der Meer
- She was born on July 27, 1838 in Buitenpost, gem. Achtkarspelen (Fr).Source 1
- She died on May 9, 1919 in Driesum, gem. Dantumadeel (Fr), she was 80 years old.Source 2
- A child of Baukje Egberts van der Meer
- This information was last updated on May 7, 2024.
Household of Fopkje van der Meer
She is married to Jan Willems Duyff.
They got married on May 9, 1867 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, she was 28 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Anke Duyff 1868-1926
- Baukje Duyff 1870-1950
- Sibbeltje Duyff 1873-1941
- Willem Duyff 1875-1877
- Egbert Duyff 1876-1933
- Willem Duyff 1879-1953
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Historical events
Birthday July 27, 1838
- The temperature on July 27, 1838 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen bui. 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.
- June 10 » Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- July 4 » The Iowa Territory is organized.
- September 3 » Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
- 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 May 9, 1867
- The temperature on May 9, 1867 was about 22.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
- In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
- April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
- August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
- November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
- December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
Day of death May 9, 1919
- The temperature on May 9, 1919 was between 8.3 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
- May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
- May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
- May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
- June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
- August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
- October 17 » RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
Same birth/death day
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- 1835 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1907)
- 1848 » Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist (d.1916)
- 1848 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary († 1919)
- 1853 » Vladimir Korolenko, Ukrainian journalist, author, and activist († 1921)
- 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
- 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
- 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
- 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
- 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
- 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
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