Genealogische data Golse Genen » Adriaan Adriaansen (1865-????)

Birthday February 15, 1865

• The temperature on February 15, 1865 was about -11.5 °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)
• 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.
  • April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
  • April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
  • June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
  • June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist and academic († 1926)
• 1861 » Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher († 1947)
• 1861 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1938)
• 1861 » Martin Burns, American wrestler and coach († 1937)
• 1873 » Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1874 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish captain and explorer († 1922)