Eijsermans family tree » Wilhelmus Maes (1863-????)

Birthday July 18, 1863

• The temperature on July 18, 1863 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
  • January 29 » The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
  • April 2 » American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
  • June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • September 20 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1861 » Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree († 1923)
• 1864 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1937)
• 1867 » Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist († 1932)
• 1871 » Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (d.1958)
• 1871 » Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer († 1946)