Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Jan van Essen (1863-????)

Birthday January 20, 1863

• The temperature on January 20, 1863 was about 5.4 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 36 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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 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.
  • June 7 » During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
  • June 20 » American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
  • August 15 » The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
  • October 14 » American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
  • October 15 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Ernest Chausson, French composer († 1899)
• 1856 » Harriot Stanton Blatch, U.S. suffragist and organizer († 1940)
• 1865 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress († 1944)
• 1870 » Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer († 1894)
• 1873 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1874 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach († 1938)