Genealogy De Bruine Duiveland » Catharina Sara Flikweert (1862-????)

Birthday September 27, 1862

• The temperature on September 27, 1862 was about 18.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
  • January 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
  • August 19 » American Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
  • December 13 » American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American poet and author († 1933)
• 1864 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest and politician († 1938)
• 1866 » Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint († 1932)
• 1871 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1879 » Frederick Schule, American hurdler and coach († 1962)
• 1879 » Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher († 1934)