Family tree van Frances Vraets en Guus Roijen » Anna Theresia Maria Helena Schiffelers (1870-1870)

Birthday January 15, 1870

• The temperature on January 15, 1870 was about 7.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
  • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
  • August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, historian, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1931)
• 1869 » Ruby Laffoon, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Kentucky († 1941)
• 1869 » Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish poet, playwright, and painter († 1907)
• 1870 » Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist († 1954)
• 1872 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator († 1944)
• 1875 » Thomas Burke, American sprinter, coach, and journalist († 1929)