Eijsermans family tree » Antonius Petrus Josephus Maria Smitz (1871-????)

Birthday September 30, 1871

• The temperature on September 30, 1871 was about 12.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 33 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
  • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
  • March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
  • May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
  • June 10 » Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
  • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1863 » Reinhard Scheer, German admiral († 1928)
• 1870 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1942)
• 1870 » Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist († 1948)
• 1882 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic († 1945)
• 1883 » Bernhard Rust, German educator and politician († 1945)