Family tree Van Dijk » Johannes Franciscus van der Aa (1870-????)

Birthday July 10, 1870

• The temperature on July 10, 1870 was about 18.9 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 26 » Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
  • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
  • August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
  • September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence († 1926)
• 1867 » Prince Maximilian of Baden († 1929)
• 1871 » Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist († 1922)
• 1874 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor († 1971)
• 1875 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician († 1973)
• 1875 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist († 1955)