De familie Sinnaeve uit Kortemark » Pieter Franciscus Hesschentier (1863-????)

Birthday April 25, 1863

• The temperature on April 25, 1863 was about 13.2 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 7 » HMSOrpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
  • February 17 » A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
  • May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
  • July 4 » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
  • November 18 » King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » Charles Sumner Tainter, American engineer and inventor († 1940)
• 1862 » Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English ornithologist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs († 1933)
• 1868 » John Moisant, American pilot and engineer († 1910)
• 1871 » Lorne Currie, French-English sailor († 1926)
• 1872 » C. B. Fry, English cricketer, footballer, educator, and politician († 1956)
• 1873 » Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1956)