Family tree Van Weeghel » Arend Jan van den Beld (1864-????)

Birthday March 1, 1864

• The temperature on March 1, 1864 was about 5.0 °C. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
  • June 15 » American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
  • August 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
  • 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.
  • September 1 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1848 » Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic († 1907)
• 1852 » Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1923)
• 1863 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer († 1930)
• 1870 » E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic († 1944)
• 1876 » Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman († 1942)
• 1880 » Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic († 1932)