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Birthday September 15, 1864

• The temperature on September 15, 1864 was about 14.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 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 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • May 7 » American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
  • September 29 » The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
  • October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.
  • December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.

Source: Wikipedia

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