Dreyer Tree » Susanna Maria Helena Dreyer (1864-????)

Birthday July 27, 1864

• The temperature on July 27, 1864 was about 18.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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.
  • February 1 » Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
  • July 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
  • July 29 » American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
  • November 25 » American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist (d.1934)
• 1857 » José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and politician († 1921)
• 1858 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer († 1938)
• 1866 » António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal († 1929)
• 1867 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer († 1916)
• 1870 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian († 1953)