Arbre Chatelain » Marie Octavie CHATELAIN (1865-????)

Birthday March 4, 1865

• The temperature on March 4, 1865 was about 3.5 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
  • July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
  • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » John Henry Wigmore, American academic and jurist († 1943)
• 1863 » R. I. Pocock, English zoologist and archaeologist († 1947)
• 1864 » David W. Taylor, American admiral, architect, and engineer († 1940)
• 1866 » Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer († 1931)
• 1867 » Charles Pelot Summerall, senior United States Army officer († 1955)
• 1867 » Jacob L. Beilhart, American activist, founded the Spirit Fruit Society († 1908)