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Day of marriage April 22, 1864

• The temperature on April 22, 1864 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 29%. 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.
  • June 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
  • July 11 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
  • 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.
  • September 29 » The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
  • December 22 » American Civil War: Savannah, Georgia, falls to the forces of General Sherman.

Day of death June 30, 1904

• The temperature on June 30, 1904 was between 5.8 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American organist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1908 » Thomas Hill, American painter (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)
• 1916 » Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn, American correspondent, author, and poet (b. 1847)
• 1917 » Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1917 » Dadabhai Naoroji, Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader (b. 1825)