Family tree Van Dijk » Maria Jacoba Wilhelmina Josephina Schmidt (1863-????)

Birthday August 4, 1863

• The temperature on August 4, 1863 was about 16.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
  • April 17 » American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
  • May 22 » American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
  • May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
  • 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 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • October 14 » American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter, etcher, and academic († 1902)
• 1859 » Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1952)
• 1867 » Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach († 1918)
• 1870 » Harry Lauder, Scottish actor and singer († 1950)
• 1871 » William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales († 1934)
• 1876 » Giovanni Giuriati, Italian lawyer and politician († 1970)