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Day of marriage May 5, 1838

• The temperature on May 5, 1838 was about 21.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: helder. 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 1838: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
  • June 10 » Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
  • June 28 » Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 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 death June 4, 1863

• The temperature on June 4, 1863 was about 20.6 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 22 » The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
  • January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
  • June 14 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
  • September 19 » American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
  • October 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • October 30 » Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.

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• 1809 » Nicolai Abildgaard, Danish neoclassical and history painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1743)
• 1830 » Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (b. 1795)
• 1872 » Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch historian, jurist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1798)
• 1875 » Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (b. 1804)
• 1876 » Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1830)
• 1922 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)