Family tree Hamier » Gerardus van Ham (1866-????)
Personal data Gerardus van Ham
- He was born on December 28, 1866 in Oosterhout, Noord Brabant.
- A child of Adrianus van Ham and Johanna Hendrika Eelants
Household of Gerardus van Ham
He is married to Geertrui Valke.
They got married on February 25, 1888 at Oosterhout, Noord Brabant, he was 21 years old.
Child(ren):
- Adriana van Ham 1888-1888
- Johannes van Ham 1889-????
- Johanna Hendrika van Ham 1891-????
- Geertrui van Ham 1892-1893
- Gerardus van Ham 1894-1894
The couple were divorced from March 6, 1901 at Dordrecht.
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Historical events
Birthday December 28, 1866
- The temperature on December 28, 1866 was about 8.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
- 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 1866: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- April 6 » The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
- April 8 » Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.
- May 2 » Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
- May 5 » Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
- July 20 » Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
- October 19 » In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
Day of marriage February 25, 1888
- The temperature on February 25, 1888 was about -5.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 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)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
- April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
- August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
Same birth/death day
- 1856 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
- 1865 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter († 1925)
- 1870 » Charles Bennett, English runner († 1949)
- 1882 » Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician († 1944)
- 1882 » Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter († 1931)
- 1887 » Werner Kolhörster, German physicist and academic († 1946)
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Jan van Ham, "Family tree Hamier", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-hamier/I758.php : accessed February 13, 2026), "Gerardus van Ham (1866-????)".
Jan van Ham, "Family tree Hamier", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-hamier/I758.php : accessed February 13, 2026), "Gerardus van Ham (1866-????)".