Olson's Tree » Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1831-1863)
Personal data Benjamin Watkins Leigh
Source 1- He was born on January 18, 1831 in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States.
- He died on July 3, 1863 in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, he was 32 years old.
- A child of Benjamin Watkins Leigh and Julia Wickham
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Birthday January 18, 1831
- The temperature on January 18, 1831 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1831: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- July 13 » Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
- July 20 » Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River.
- September 8 » William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- October 9 » Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
- November 11 » In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
- December 25 » The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
Day of death July 3, 1863
- The temperature on July 3, 1863 was about 19.8 °C. The air pressure was 3.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- January 1 » American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
- January 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
- April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
- July 18 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
- August 8 » American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
- August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
Same birth/death day
- 1815 » Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian and scholar († 1874)
- 1835 » César Cui, Russian general, composer, and critic († 1918)
- 1840 » Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and author († 1921)
- 1841 » Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer († 1894)
- 1842 » A. A. Ames, American physician and politician, Mayor of Minneapolis († 1911)
- 1848 » Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author († 1925)
- 1863 » George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
- 1863 » Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
- 1881 » Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1811)
- 1887 » Clay Allison, American rancher (b. 1841)
- 1888 » Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1822)
- 1904 » Édouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P13181.php : accessed February 24, 2026), "Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1831-1863)".