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Personal data Rens Prins 


Household of Rens Prins

He is married to Trijntje de Wit.

They got married on March 17, 1816 at Broek op Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland, he was 24 years old.

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Birthday December 22, 1791

  • The temperature on December 22, 1791 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
    • August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
    • September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
    • September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
    • September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
    • December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

Christening day December 25, 1791

  • The temperature on December 25, 1791 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 10 » The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
    • May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
    • May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
    • August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
    • September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
    • September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.

Day of death May 23, 1841

  • 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 1841: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 20 » Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
    • March 30 » The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
    • June 28 » The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
    • July 5 » Thomas Cook organises the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough.
    • September 24 » The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
    • November 13 » James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.


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