Family tree Groot, Schellinkhout » Geertje Dirks Krom (1867-????)

Birthday January 1, 1867

• The temperature on January 1, 1867 was about 0.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
  • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
  • July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Michele Lega, Italian cardinal († 1935)
• 1863 » Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee († 1937)
• 1864 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator († 1946)
• 1864 » Qi Baishi, Chinese painter († 1957)
• 1867 » Mary Ackworth Evershed, English astronomer and scholar († 1949)
• 1874 » Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1944)