Olson's Tree » Harold Courtney Tennyson (1896-1916)
Personal data Harold Courtney Tennyson
Source 1- He was born on April 27, 1896 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England.
- He died on January 29, 1916 in Aboard H.M.T.D.B. Viking, English Channel, he was 19 years old.
- A child of Hallam Tennyson and Audrey Georgiana Florence Boyle
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Birthday April 27, 1896
- The temperature on April 27, 1896 was about 13.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
- February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
- September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death January 29, 1916
- The temperature on January 29, 1916 was between 1.0 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
- January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
- February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
- August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
- September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
- September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
Same birth/death day
- 1894 » George Petty, American painter and illustrator († 1975)
- 1894 » Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1995)
- 1896 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1963)
- 1896 » Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor of nylon († 1937)
- 1896 » William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer († 1978)
- 1898 » Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator († 1962)
- 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
- 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
- 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861)
- 1933 » Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
- 1934 » Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P13881.php : accessed January 29, 2026), "Harold Courtney Tennyson (1896-1916)".