Eijsermans family tree » Cornelia van Heugten (1863-????)

Birthday December 16, 1863

• The temperature on December 16, 1863 was about 6.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • April 17 » American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
  • May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
  • July 9 » American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi River.
  • September 7 » American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore captures Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a 7-week siege.
  • September 8 » American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
  • October 15 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1863 » George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet († 1952)
• 1865 » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet († 1918)
• 1866 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist († 1944)
• 1867 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian († 1951)
• 1869 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization († 1952)