Family tree van familie Smit te Rotterdam » Jan van der Sluis (1867-????)

Birthday January 16, 1867

• The temperature on January 16, 1867 was about -1.8 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 74 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)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
  • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia († 1942)
• 1872 » Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor († 1973)
• 1874 » Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author († 1958)
• 1875 » Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician († 1949)
• 1876 » Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer († 1937)
• 1878 » Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1947)