Genealogy Van Loo-Malcorps » Josephus Petrus HUYSSEUNE (± 1829-1865)

Day of death January 9, 1865

• The temperature on January 9, 1865 was about 4.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
  • March 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1848 » Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (b. 1750)
• 1856 » Neophytos Vamvas, Greek cleric and educator (b. 1770)
• 1858 » Anson Jones, American physician and politician; 4th President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1798)
• 1873 » Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France (b. 1808)
• 1876 » Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and activist (b. 1801)
• 1878 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)