Downs Tree » Angeline Eveland Wilkinson (1864-1906)

Birthday January 22, 1864

• The temperature on January 22, 1864 was about 8.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
  • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
  • July 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
  • August 22 » Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1861 » George Fuller, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of New South Wales († 1940)
• 1865 » Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist († 1942)
• 1867 » Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician († 1943)
• 1869 » José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese colonel and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal († 1952)
• 1874 » Edward Harkness, American philanthropist († 1940)