Family tree Giezenaar » Anna Gertrudus Hubertina WILMS (1861-????)

Birthday January 19, 1861

• The temperature on January 19, 1861 was about -0.2 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• 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 year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
  • April 20 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
  • May 13 » Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
  • October 17 » Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
  • November 28 » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Missouri to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.
  • December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1848 » Arturo Graf, Italian poet, of German ancestry († 1913).
• 1851 » Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic († 1922)
• 1852 » Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia († 1909)
• 1863 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist († 1941)
• 1866 » Harry Davenport, American stage and film actor († 1949)
• 1871 » Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization († 1906)