Généalogie de famille Decroos » Marie Louise van CAPPELLEN (1863-????)

Birthday October 14, 1863

• The temperature on October 14, 1863 was about 14.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
  • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • May 18 » American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
  • July 1 » Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
  • October 15 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
  • November 26 » United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.

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• 1853 » John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman († 1924)
• 1861 » Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer († 1891)
• 1867 » Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic († 1902)
• 1869 » Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer († 1939)
• 1871 » Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher († 1942)
• 1872 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player († 1910)