Barber Family Tree » Eliza Jane Gilbert (1864-1925)

Birthday July 27, 1864

• The temperature on July 27, 1864 was about 18.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
  • June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
  • July 11 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
  • October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.
  • November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist (d.1934)
• 1857 » José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and politician († 1921)
• 1858 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer († 1938)
• 1866 » António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal († 1929)
• 1867 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer († 1916)
• 1870 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian († 1953)