Family tree van Frances Vraets en Guus Roijen » Maria Hubertina Judith Soons (1863-????)

Birthday March 13, 1863

• The temperature on March 13, 1863 was about 4.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 19 » The SSGeorgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
  • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • June 20 » American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
  • July 26 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
  • September 20 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Percival Lowell, American astronomer and mathematician († 1916)
• 1857 » B. H. Roberts, English-American historian and politician († 1933)
• 1860 » Hugo Wolf, Slovene-Austrian composer († 1903)
• 1862 » Paul Prosper Henrys, French general († 1943)
• 1864 » Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter († 1941)
• 1870 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator († 1938)