Genealogische data Golse Genen » Maria Catharina van Hal (1863-????)

Birthday May 16, 1863

• The temperature on May 16, 1863 was about 13.6 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 1 » American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
  • June 14 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
  • August 16 » The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
  • August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
  • October 29 » Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
  • November 25 » American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Horace Hutchinson, English golfer († 1932)
• 1862 » Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (d.1940)
• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)