Eijsermans family tree » Roelf Middel (1867-????)

Birthday December 1, 1867

• The temperature on December 1, 1867 was about 10.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 30 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
  • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania († 1943)
• 1869 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic († 1923)
• 1871 » Archie MacLaren, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1871 » George Howard Williams, American politician and attorney, United States Senator from Missouri († 1963)
• 1883 » Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic († 1974)
• 1884 » Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher († 1976)