About the day » Friday August 24, 1860Calender converter

• Aaltje Jannes Speelman, Westerbork († 1883)
• Anna_Maria van Dijck, Den Haag († 1942)
• van der Vegte, Oldebroek († 1860)
• Aaltje SPEELMAN, Zwiggelte (Westerbork), Drenthe, Nederland († 1883)
• Adriana Akerboom, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1877)
• Alexander Macfarlane, Ormsaigmor, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Scotland († 1943)
• Adriaan van Bragt, Terheijden (noord-brabant) († 1939)
• Adriana Hendrika Straatman, Arnhem († 1924)
• Adriaan Bragt, van, Terheijden, NL († 1939)
• Aloysius Smet, Temse

• Alida Broek (0), Vlaardingen
• Anne Ruurds Deelstra (84), Huizum
• Anne Ruurds Deelstra (84), onder Huizum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries Roelfs Veenstra (73), Leek, Nederland
• Andries Roels Oostinga Veenstra (73), Leek,Groningen,Nederland
• Anna Catharina BAERTS (76), Diepenbeek, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Aantje van Es (67), Kedichem
• Berta Houwing (31), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Carolina Pauwels (9), Wilmarsdonk
• Anna Maria Wilken (0), Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1837 » Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator († 1924)
• 1843 » Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland († 1905)
• 1845 » James Calhoun, American lieutenant († 1876)
• 1851 » Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer and journalist († 1924)
• 1860 » David Bowman, Australian lawyer and politician († 1916)
• 1862 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist († 1956)
• 1863 » Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer († 1918)
• 1865 » Ferdinand I of Romania († 1927)
• 1872 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist († 1956)
• 1884 » Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright († 1933)

• 1798 » Thomas Alcock, English priest and author (b. 1709)
• 1804 » Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (b. 1760)
• 1818 » James Carr, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1821 » John William Polidori, English writer and physician (b. 1795)
• 1832 » Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
• 1838 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1841 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)
• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Klaas
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Mary
15. Antje
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
• March 5 » Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• September 8 » The steamship PSLady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
• September 21 » Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
• October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• October 26 » The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
• December 20 » South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.

The temperature on August 24, 1860 was about 14.2 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.