Database Van Broekhoven » Adrianus Franciscus Lenaers (1870-????)

Birthday March 4, 1870

• The temperature on March 4, 1870 was about 2.6 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
  • January 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
  • June 22 » The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
  • July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
  • September 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
  • September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Charles Pelot Summerall, senior United States Army officer († 1955)
• 1867 » Jacob L. Beilhart, American activist, founded the Spirit Fruit Society († 1908)
• 1870 » Thomas Sturge Moore, English author and poet († 1944)
• 1871 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer († 1945)
• 1873 » Guy Wetmore Carryl, American journalist and poet († 1904)
• 1873 » John H. Trumbull, American colonel and politician, 70th Governor of Connecticut († 1961)