Genealogy Bovenschen, Looijenga, Van Gelderen en Van Donk » Elisabeth Alida Witte (1864-< 1867)

Birthday April 1, 1864

• The temperature on April 1, 1864 was about 5.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
  • February 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
  • April 17 » American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
  • May 15 » American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
  • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
  • July 29 » American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1866 » Ève Lavallière, French actress († 1929)
• 1866 » Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1924)
• 1866 » William Blomfield, New Zealand cartoonist and politician († 1938)
• 1868 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1868 » Walter Mead, English cricketer († 1954)