Dreyer Tree » Adrian Albertus Dreyer (1896-1917)
Personal data Adrian Albertus Dreyer
- He was born on December 14, 1896 in Ladybrand, Orange Free State, South Africa.
- He died on April 19, 1917 in Gesneuweld op't slagveld in Europa (tweede Wereldoorlog), he was 20 years old.
- A child of Petrus Adriaan Dreyer and Maria Johanna van Staden
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Historical events
Birthday December 14, 1896
- The temperature on December 14, 1896 was about 2.7 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
- May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
- July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
Day of death April 19, 1917
- The temperature on April 19, 1917 was between -1.6 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
- March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
- May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
- July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
- November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
Same birth/death day
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- 1897 » Kurt Schuschnigg, Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria († 1977)
- 1897 » Margaret Chase Smith, American educator and politician († 1995)
- 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
- 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
- 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
- 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
- 1916 » Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
- 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
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Hendrik Dreyer, "Dreyer Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dreyer-tree/I12072.php : accessed January 16, 2026), "Adrian Albertus Dreyer (1896-1917)".