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Christening day March 23, 1859

• The temperature on March 23, 1859 was about 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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).
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• In the year 1859: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.
  • April 4 » Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
  • July 30 » First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
  • August 28 » The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
  • October 16 » John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
  • October 26 » The Royal Charter Storm kills at least eight hundred people in the British Isles.

Day of marriage June 19, 1883

• The temperature on June 19, 1883 was about 17.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
  • June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
  • August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
  • August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
  • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
  • December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.

Day of death January 5, 1906

• The temperature on January 5, 1906 was between 2.9 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)