Eijsermans family tree » Hendrikus Augustinus Snellen (1869-????)

Birthday June 16, 1869

• The temperature on June 16, 1869 was about 12.5 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 19 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
  • April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
  • April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
  • September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austrian-Hungarian general († 1935)
• 1858 » Gustaf V of Sweden († 1950)
• 1863 » Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat († 1939)
• 1866 » Germanos Karavangelis, Greek-Austrian metropolitan († 1935)
• 1874 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada († 1960)
• 1880 » Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and author († 1963)