Eijsermans family tree » Elisabeth Vernee (1849-1915)

Day of marriage May 7, 1873

• The temperature on May 7, 1873 was about 10.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
  • March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
  • May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
  • June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
  • August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
  • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

Day of death July 15, 1915

• The temperature on July 15, 1915 was between 10.6 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
  • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop († 1825)
• 1904 » Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)