Eijsermans family tree » Johanna Maria Cornelia van Eijk (1862-????)

Birthday July 19, 1862

• The temperature on July 19, 1862 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
  • June 1 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
  • June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
  • July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
  • August 17 » American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
  • December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her parents in 1892 († 1927)
• 1864 » Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer († 1920)
• 1865 » Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic († 1939)
• 1865 » Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer († 1933)
• 1868 » Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator († 1944)
• 1869 » Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport († 1927)