Family tree Biesen (eertijds ook De Biese) stamvader Pauwels rond 1550 (Oerle-Zeelst) » Lodewijk Christoffel Hondius (1864-????)

Birthday June 13, 1864

• The temperature on June 13, 1864 was about 12.0 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 27 » American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
  • April 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
  • May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
  • May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
  • August 10 » After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
  • August 18 » American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer († 1935)
• 1864 » Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic († 1939)
• 1864 » Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic († 1922)
• 1865 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer († 1932)
• 1865 » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1939)
• 1868 » Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic († 1919)