Eijsermans family tree » Johannes Bernardus Verheijen (1865-????)

Birthday November 16, 1865

• The temperature on November 16, 1865 was about 3.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1851 » Minnie Hauk, American-Swiss soprano and actress († 1929)
• 1856 » Jürgen Kröger, German architect († 1928)
• 1861 » Luigi Facta, Italian politician and journalist († 1930)
• 1862 » Charles Turner, Australian cricketer († 1944)
• 1873 » W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer († 1958)
• 1874 » Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer († 1920)