Genealogy Van Melzen » Harm Sytses Bijstra (1869-????)

Birthday December 24, 1869

• The temperature on December 24, 1869 was about 1.3 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
  • April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
  • April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
  • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, educator, and diplomat, founded the Askenazy school († 1935)
• 1867 » Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator († 1915)
• 1868 » Charles Harvey Bollman, American naturalist († 1889)
• 1868 » Emanuel Lasker, German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher († 1941)
• 1869 » Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet, playwright, and politician († 1952)
• 1872 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player († 1927)