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.
February 27 » American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
June 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
June 12 » American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
July 22 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
September 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
Day of marriage January 13, 1886
The temperature on January 13, 1886 was about 0.7 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
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.
March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
Day of death July 6, 1902
The temperature on July 6, 1902 was between 5.4 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 16.0 hours of sunshine (97%). Source: KNMI
January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Rob Heesters, "Family tree Rob Heesters", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-rob-heesters/I270.php : accessed February 11, 2026), "Gerardus Petronella Schuurmans (1864-1902)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.