Eijsermans family tree » Henri van Leeuwen (1870-????)

Birthday January 3, 1870

• The temperature on January 3, 1870 was about 6.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 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)
• 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 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  • May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
  • August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
  • August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » Henry Lytton, English actor († 1936)
• 1870 » Henry Handel Richardson, Australian-English author († 1946)
• 1873 » Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman and art collector, founded the Hankyu Hanshin Holdings († 1957)
• 1875 » Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece († 1950)
• 1876 » Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and politician, 1st President of the German Democratic Republic († 1960)
• 1877 » Josephine Hull, American actress († 1957)