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Personal data Jan Romkes Viersen 


Household of Jan Romkes Viersen

He is married to Wipkje Ballings Venekamp.

They got married on May 18, 1816 at Dantumadeel, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Balling Jans Viersen  1816-< 1826
  2. Romke Jans Viersen  1818-???? 
  3. Jacob Jans Viersen  1820-????
  4. Antje Jans Viersen  1822-1885
  5. Wytske Jans Viersen  1824-1910
  8. Berber Jans Viersen  1831-????
  9. Tjerk Jans Viersen  1833-1874

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Birthday May 20, 1791

  • The temperature on May 20, 1791 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. 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
    • February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
    • March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
    • June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
    • August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
    • September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
    • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

Day of marriage May 18, 1816

  • The temperature on May 18, 1816 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt omtrent betrokken regen. 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 1816: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 10 » The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
    • April 14 » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
    • July 2 » The French frigateMéduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
    • July 9 » Argentina declares independence from Spain.
    • August 14 » The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
    • September 5 » Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").

Day of death September 11, 1877

  • The temperature on September 11, 1877 was about 15.9 °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 80%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 8 » Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
    • June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
    • June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
    • July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
    • November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
    • December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.


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