Family tree Ype Ypes (waaronder van der Meulen) » Obbe van Gorkum (1764-1819)

Personal data Obbe van Gorkum 

  • He was born in the year 1764.
    Sneek, dopen, doopjaar 1764
    Dopeling: Obbe
    Gedoopt op 16 december 1764 in Sneek
    Zoon van Hendrik van Gorkum en Sytske Postimus

    Gestandaardiseerde namen (voornaam en patroniem):
    Dopeling : OBBE
    Vader : HENDRIK
    Moeder : SIETSKE
  • He was christened on December 16, 1764 in Sneek.
  • He died on January 20, 1819 in Amsterdam, he was 55 years old.
  • A child of Hendrik Dircksz van Gorkum and Sytske Obes Posthumus
  • This information was last updated on October 18, 2009.

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    Christening day December 16, 1764

    • The temperature on December 16, 1764 was about 3.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: donker 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)
    • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
      • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
      • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
      • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

    Day of death January 20, 1819

    • The temperature on January 20, 1819 was about 4.0 °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 1819: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 17 » The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
      • February 19 » British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
      • February 22 » By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
      • March 15 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel is adjudged the winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences for his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", which verifies the Fresnel integrals, accounts for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishes Newton's initial objection to the wave theory of light.
      • July 1 » Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
      • August 6 » Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
    

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