Genealogy Van der Herten - Laurijssen » Josephus Christianus Wuyts (1862-????)

Birthday November 30, 1862

• The temperature on November 30, 1862 was about 3.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • June 1 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
  • June 6 » American Civil War: Battle of Memphis: Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
  • July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
  • November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.
  • November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
  • December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Bobby Abel, English cricketer († 1936)
• 1858 » Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist († 1937)
• 1863 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino activist and politician, co-founded Katipunan († 1897)
• 1866 » Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria († 1933)
• 1869 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1869 » James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland († 1953)