Emigranten » Johanna Nieuwenhuijse (1863-????)

Birthday July 19, 1863

• The temperature on July 19, 1863 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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.
  • March 19 » The SSGeorgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
  • June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • August 16 » The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
  • September 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • November 16 » American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee: Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
  • 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

• 1860 » Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her parents in 1892 († 1927)
• 1864 » Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer († 1920)
• 1865 » Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic († 1939)
• 1865 » Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer († 1933)
• 1868 » Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator († 1944)
• 1869 » Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport († 1927)