Family tree Jan Werkman » Grietje Wieringa (1871-????)

Birthday June 4, 1871

• The temperature on June 4, 1871 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
  • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
  • March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
  • April 1 » The 3rd Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
  • July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
  • October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Miina Sillanpää, Finnish journalist and politician († 1952)
• 1867 » Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland († 1951)
• 1873 » Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (d.1942)
• 1877 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1879 » Mabel Lucie Attwell, English author and illustrator († 1964)
• 1880 » Clara Blandick, American actress († 1962)