McMahon/Trahan Family Tree » Leon Augustin Trahan (1865-????)

Birthday March 5, 1865

• The temperature on March 5, 1865 was about 1.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
  • April 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • 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.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • November 26 » Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician († 1934)
• 1867 » Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec († 1952)
• 1869 » Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal († 1952)
• 1870 » Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer († 1953)
• 1870 » Frank Norris, American journalist and author († 1902)
• 1871 » Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher († 1919)