Harrower Family Tree » John Mercer (1865-????)
Personal data John Mercer
Source 1- He was born on May 6, 1865 in Muirhouses, Lochgelly, Auchterderran, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
- A child of Andrew Mercer and Agnes Dunsire
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- Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1865 Record for John Mercer Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Record for John Mercer
Name: John Mercer
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 6 May 1865
Birth Place: Auchterderran, Fife, Scotland
Father: Andrew Mercer
Mother: Agnes Dunsire
Historical events
Birthday May 6, 1865
- The temperature on May 6, 1865 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. 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.
- February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
- March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
- April 9 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- June 11 » The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
- July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
- December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
Same birth/death day
- 1861 » Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress († 1931)
- 1868 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author († 1927)
- 1869 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan († 1932)
- 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
- 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
- 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
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