Genealogy Meijer en Van Duivenboden » Petronella van der Sluis (1865-????)

Birthday December 17, 1865

• The temperature on December 17, 1865 was about 7.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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.
  • March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician and immunologist, co-founded the Pasteur Institute († 1933)
• 1859 » Paul César Helleu, French painter and illustrator († 1927)
• 1866 » Kazys Grinius, Lithuanian physician and politician, 3rd President of Lithuania († 1950)
• 1873 » Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic († 1939)
• 1874 » William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada († 1950)
• 1881 » Aubrey Faulkner, South African-English cricketer and coach († 1930)