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Birthday March 10, 1865

• The temperature on March 10, 1865 was about 0.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1930)
• 1867 » Hector Guimard, French-American architect († 1942)
• 1867 » Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian, and author, founded the Henry Street Settlement († 1940)
• 1870 » David Riazanov, Russian theorist and politician († 1938)
• 1873 » Jakob Wassermann, German-Austrian soldier and author († 1934)
• 1876 » Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor († 1973)