Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Levensloos Gilissen (1871-1871)

Birthday January 1, 1871

• The temperature on January 1, 1871 was about -10.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. 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)
• 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.
  • March 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
  • March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
  • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
  • July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
  • October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1874 » Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer († 1927)
• 1877 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, German sinologist and orientalist († 1937)