Family tree Van 't Veld » Egbert Langenberg (1840-1901)

Day of marriage February 25, 1865

• The temperature on February 25, 1865 was about 2.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. 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)
• 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
  • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
  • April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

Day of death September 10, 1901

• The temperature on September 10, 1901 was between 14.4 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (16%). Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
  • May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
  • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
  • September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
  • December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
  • December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
• 1891 » David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (b. 1804)
• 1898 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
• 1905 » Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
• 1915 » Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1879 )
• 1915 » Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)