Family tree Van Dijk » Henricus Johannes Bedaux (1862-????)

Birthday May 27, 1862

• The temperature on May 27, 1862 was about 14.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
  • September 17 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
  • October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
  • November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist († 1928)
• 1860 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal († 1941)
• 1863 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer († 1921)
• 1867 » Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright († 1931)
• 1868 » Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator († 1958)