Genealogy De Vos-Verschuur » Cornelia van Oostende (1870-????)

Birthday September 6, 1870

• The temperature on September 6, 1870 was about 19.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
  • July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
  • September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.
  • September 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
  • October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia († 1917)
• 1863 » Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator († 1935)
• 1868 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council († 1947)
• 1869 » Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic († 1945)
• 1869 » Walford Davies, English organist and composer († 1941)
• 1876 » John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)