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Personal data Gerke Balstra 


Household of Gerke Balstra

He is married to Annigjen Koops Knobbe.

They got married on January 19, 1857 at Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland, he was 34 years old.Source 1

Huwelijksregister 1857, archiefnummer 30-28, Burgerlijke Stand Opsterland - Tresoar, inventarisnummer 2021
Gemeente: Opsterland
Periode: 1857
aktenummer 0004

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Birthday April 4, 1822

  • The temperature on April 4, 1822 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig bui. 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 1822: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 9 » The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
    • June 14 » Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
    • July 8 » Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
    • October 12 » Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
    • October 31 » Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire.
    • December 1 » Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.

Day of death January 16, 1907

  • The temperature on January 16, 1907 was between 5.1 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
    • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
    • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
    • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
    • September 29 » The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
    • December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
    • December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.


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