Eijsermans family tree » Marinus van Donzel (1864-????)

Birthday March 12, 1864

• The temperature on March 12, 1864 was about 7.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 18 » Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
  • May 21 » The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
  • May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
  • July 19 » Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
  • August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
  • October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician († 1906)
• 1860 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author († 1895)
• 1863 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright († 1938)
• 1863 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist († 1945)
• 1864 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist († 1922)
• 1869 » George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1947)