Family tree van Frances Vraets en Guus Roijen » Petrus (Peter) Kersten (1871-????)

Birthday May 5, 1871

• The temperature on May 5, 1871 was about 11.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. 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.
  • March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
  • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
  • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
  • June 10 » Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
  • August 29 » Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
  • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Nellie Bly, American journalist and author († 1922)
• 1865 » Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet († 1943)
• 1866 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman († 1938)
• 1869 » Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator († 1937)
• 1869 » Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor († 1949)
• 1874 » Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales († 1941)