1001 stambomen » Cornelia van Eskert (1836-1877)

Day of marriage August 5, 1863

• The temperature on August 5, 1863 was about 17.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • January 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
  • January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
  • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • July 3 » American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
  • July 19 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
  • October 26 » The Football Association is founded.

Day of death September 15, 1877

• The temperature on September 15, 1877 was about 17.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
  • May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
  • May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
  • June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
  • October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
  • November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1842 » Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• 1852 » Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)