Family tree Verboeket » Peter Joannes Verboeket (1871-????)

Birthday August 14, 1871

• The temperature on August 14, 1871 was about 25.5 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
  • March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
  • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
  • July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
  • October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
  • October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic († 1962)
• 1867 » Cupid Childs, American baseball player († 1912)
• 1867 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1933)
• 1870 » Nelson McDowell, American actor († 1947)
• 1871 » Guangxu Emperor of China († 1908)
• 1875 » Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian-American painter and illustrator († 1957)