Dreyer Tree » Maria Margaretha Magdelena (Maria Margaretha Magdelena ) Visser (1865-????)

Birthday June 27, 1865

• The temperature on June 27, 1865 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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.
  • January 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer († 1938)
• 1865 » John Monash, Australian engineer and general († 1931)
• 1869 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1869 » Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist († 1961)
• 1870 » Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist († 1947)