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Gebeurtenissen:
Westerman, Werleman en Wijsmuller richten in Amsterdam het genootschap Natura Artis
Magistra op. Zij kopen een stuk grond van 60x80 meter in de Plantage ten oosten van de
stad. Dit is het begin van de diergaarde Artis.
Het Nederlandse civiele recht krijgt gestalte in de vorm van een nieuw Burgerlijk Wetboek,
dat tot 1992 in gebruik zal blijven.

Geboren:
27 Januari - Anna van der Werf.
3 Maart - Aaltje van den Houten.
15 Maart - Teunis van der Vlugt.
26 April - Lena van den Houten.
27 April - Marinus Hendrikus van den Houten.
6 Augustus - Frans Pakaud.
17 Augustus - Hendrika van den Houten.
23 Augustus - Cornelia van den Houten.
18 September - Anton Mauve, Nederlands kunstschilder.
10 Oktober - Adriaan van den Houten.
25 Oktober - Georges Bizet, Frans componist.

Overleden:
21 Maart - Aaltje van den Houten.
21 Juni - Gerrit van den Houten.
13 Juli - Marcus Vreeswijk.
10 December - Elizabeth Nagtegaal.

Uitgestorven:
De Tasmaanse Emoe.


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1838

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Events:
January 6 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph.
January 8 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner
of Morse code).
January 12 - Joseph Smith and one of his followers flee Ohio for Missouri.
June 12 - Territory of Iowa established.
September 3 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a
free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his
way to freedom from slavery.
November 5 - Honduras separates from the Central American Federation, weakening the
confederation.
Proteins discovered by Jons Jacob Berzelius.
The Pastry War.
Start of First British-Afghan War.
Republic of Yucatan declares independence from Mexico.
Start of Central American Civil War.
Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis of gospel origins, which
is held by a majority of biblical scholars to this day.

Births:
January 4 - Charles Stratton ("General Tom Thumb"), circus performer, entertainer (+ 1883).
January 6 - Max Bruch, composer (+ 1920).
January 16 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (+ 1917).
January 27 - Anna van der Werf.
February 16 - Henry Adams, american historian.
February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher.
March 3 - Aaltje van den Houten.
March 3 - George William Hill, astronomer (+ 1914).
March 15 - Teunis van der Vlugt.
April 26 - Lena van den Houten.
April 27 - Marinus Hendrikus van den Houten.
May 10 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
May 20 - Jules Méline, French statesman (+ 1925).
August 6 - Frans Pakaud.
August 17 - Hendrika van den Houten.
August 23 - Cornelia van den Houten.
October 10 - Adriaan van den Houten.
October 25 - Georges Bizet, French composer.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Deaths:
March 21 - Aaltje van den Houten.
May 17 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (* 1754).
June 21 - Gerrit van den Houten.
July 4 - Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre and his accomplices, authors of The Riot of
Quillota, Chile were shot.
July 13 - Marcus Vreeswijk.
December 10 - Elizabeth Nagtegaal.


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1838