Die Wittgensteiner Familiendatei » Christian Knebel (1865-????)

Birthday October 14, 1865

• The temperature on October 14, 1865 was about 11.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1861 » Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer († 1891)
• 1867 » Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic († 1902)
• 1869 » Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer († 1939)
• 1871 » Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher († 1942)
• 1872 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player († 1910)