Chapman-Nash Family Tree » Isabella Rayner (1863-????)

Birthday September 14, 1863

• The temperature on September 14, 1863 was about 15.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 11 » American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
  • May 22 » American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
  • May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
  • July 3 » American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
  • August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
  • September 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Julia Platt, American embryologist and politician († 1935)
• 1860 » Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer († 1940)
• 1864 » Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1867 » Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator († 1944)
• 1868 » Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright († 1925)
• 1869 » Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager († 1953)