Family tree Millecam » Hendrina Wilhelmina BOLK (1869-????)

Birthday December 26, 1869

• The temperature on December 26, 1869 was about -2.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
  • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician († 1945)
• 1867 » Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist († 1942)
• 1872 » Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1873 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer († 1953)
• 1874 » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and academic († 1965)