Voorouders Monique en Jan Vis en aanverwante personen » Lena de Koning, (1866-????)

Birthday January 31, 1866

• The temperature on January 31, 1866 was about 8.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1866: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 6 » The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
  • May 1 » The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • June 7 » One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
  • June 24 » Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
  • August 23 » Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
  • October 19 » In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1865 » Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist († 1940)
• 1865 » Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS († 1951)
• 1868 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1872 » Zane Grey, American author († 1939)
• 1881 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)