Family tree Bolijn-Wessels » Jan Piet van Driel (1864-????)

Birthday September 25, 1864

• The temperature on September 25, 1864 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
  • March 15 » American Civil War: The Red River Campaign: U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
  • May 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
  • October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
  • November 29 » American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia († 1952)
• 1862 » Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer († 1897)
• 1865 » Henri Lebasque, French artist († 1937)
• 1866 » Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1945)
• 1867 » Yevgeny Miller, Russian general († 1938)
• 1877 » Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (1924-1928), known as the Jefe Maximo (Maximum Boss) from 1928-1936. († 1945)