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Personal data Petrus Roovers
- He was born on June 13, 1854 in Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland.
- He died on March 24, 1908 in Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 53 years old.
- A child of Josephus Roovers and Lucia van Oers
Household of Petrus Roovers
He is married to Maria Jacoba Peeters.
They got married on March 3, 1881 at Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 26 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- Josephus Roovers 1882-± 1960
- Cornelis Roovers 1883-????
- Josina Roovers 1896-????
- Wilhelmina Roovers 1896-????
- Maria Roovers 1900-
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Birthday June 13, 1854
- The temperature on June 13, 1854 was about 14.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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).
- From April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
- In the year 1854: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
- February 24 » A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
- March 24 » President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.
- March 31 » Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
- July 28 » USSConstellation(1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.
- August 19 » The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
- October 9 » Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins.
Day of marriage March 3, 1881
- The temperature on March 3, 1881 was about -1.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
- April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
- July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
- July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
- September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
Day of death March 24, 1908
- The temperature on March 24, 1908 was between 0.9 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
- January 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
- June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
- July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
- December 28 » The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.
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- 1854 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company († 1931)
- 1863 » Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer († 1935)
- 1864 » Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic († 1939)
- 1864 » Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic († 1922)
- 1865 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer († 1932)
- 1865 » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1939)
- 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
- 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
- 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
- 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
- 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
- 1926 » Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)
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