Emigranten » Prudence Gislena de Gelan (1864-????)

Birthday April 26, 1864

• The temperature on April 26, 1864 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
  • March 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • October 2 » American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
  • October 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
  • November 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1862 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)