About the day » Friday December 26, 1862Calender converter

• Adriaan Willem Sleijser
• Anna Clasina VAN DEN ABEELEN, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anje Land, Bierum, Godlinze († 1942)
• Albertus Bagijn, Hillegersberg († 1863)
• Adriaan Willem Sleijser, Leiden († 1932)
• Adrianus Albertus Van Kesteren, Singkawang Borneo († 1883)
• Albertus Martinus Brusse, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Helden, Willemstad, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1863)
• Aaltje Maarsing, Bourtange Vlagtwedde Westerwolde Groningen Nederland († 1946)
• Adriana Zacharina den Dekker, Giessendam († 1925)

• Aafke Pieters Witteveen (64), Akmarijp
• Afke WITTEVEEN (64), Akmarijp,Gemeente Skarsterl√¢n,Friesland,Netherlands
• Anchor Fox (56), Warren Cnty, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana van Breda(a) (65), Tilburg
• Adrina Jacoba Wubben (41), Groningen
• Bernardina van Ooijen (65), Leiden
• Anna Catharina Josepha Simons (4), Ubach over Worms, Landgraaf
• (m) Breuer (0), Berghausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Bernardus van der Nol (0), 's-Gravenzande
• Barholomeus Martinus Soeterbroek (5), Berkel-Rodenrijs

• 1852 » Johannes François Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer († 1938)
• 1853 » René Bazin, French author and academic († 1932)
• 1854 » José Yves Limantour, Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance († 1935)
• 1859 » William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California († 1944)
• 1863 » Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records († 1957)
• 1864 » Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician († 1945)
• 1867 » Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist († 1942)
• 1872 » Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1873 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer († 1953)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

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

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

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
• February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• July 1 » Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
• August 17 » American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
• September 13 » American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

The temperature on December 26, 1862 was about 5.9 °C. The air pressure was 19 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.