Family tree Jacobs » Gerardus Anthonius van Roon (1863-????)

Birthday September 13, 1863

• The temperature on September 13, 1863 was about 11.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
  • March 19 » The SSGeorgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
  • May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
  • July 4 » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
  • July 18 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel and activist († 1937)
• 1857 » Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company († 1945)
• 1860 » John J. Pershing, American general and lawyer († 1948)
• 1865 » William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal († 1951)
• 1872 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, 44th Prime Minister of Japan († 1951)
• 1873 » Constantin Carathéodory, German mathematician and author († 1950)