Genealogy Van Assen » Siepke van der Molen (1861-????)

Birthday February 16, 1861

• The temperature on February 16, 1861 was about 7.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In the year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 19 » American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
  • April 17 » The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
  • May 20 » American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
  • September 6 » American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
  • November 9 » The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.
  • December 10 » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1848 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic († 1935)
• 1848 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright († 1917)
• 1856 » Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia († 1920)
• 1866 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager († 1940)
• 1868 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer († 1952)
• 1873 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author († 1908)