Family tree De Duffelt » Hendrikus "1850 " Beerntsen (1870-????)

Birthday July 16, 1870

• The temperature on July 16, 1870 was about 24.9 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
  • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  • August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
  • August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist († 1931)
• 1863 » Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland († 1910)
• 1870 » Lambert McKenna, Irish priest, lexicographer, and scholar († 1956)
• 1871 » John Maxwell, American golfer († 1906)
• 1872 » Frank Cooper, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland († 1949)
• 1872 » Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer († 1928)