Parentele of Jan Thonis » Aaltje van Ginkel (1865-????)

Birthday December 13, 1865

• The temperature on December 13, 1865 was about -3.2 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • 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.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
  • 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 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal († 1920)
• 1860 » Lucien Guitry, French actor († 1925)
• 1864 » Emil Seidel, American woodcarver and politician, 36th Mayor of Milwaukee († 1947)
• 1867 » Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author († 1917)
• 1870 » Edward LeSaint, American actor and director († 1940)
• 1871 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author († 1945)