About the day » Sunday February 12, 1860Calender converter

• Aartje van Nes, Boskoop
• Aaltje Gerhardus Faken, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1941)
• Marinus Heijmans, Roosendaal
• Aagje Pols, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Adélaïde DELETANG, Ligueil, 37240, France
• Andries de KORTE, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1929)
• Adrianus Hanemaaijer, Maasland, 3155, Nederland († 1860)
• Adrianus Matheus Van Den Brule, Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, Nederland) († 1860)
• Akke Brouwer, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aagje POLS, Rotterdam, 6240, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)

• Albert Roege (15), Zuidwolde
• Antje Rottes IWEMA (62), Marum Groningen Netherlands
• Antje Rottes Ijwema (63), Marum, Netherlands
• Anna Barbara Weusten (0), Meerssen
• Antje van Heuveln (38), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Willemsz Schaap (72)
• Abraham PAK (18), Zutphen (Gld.), Neth
• Adriaan Raaijmakers (55), Dongen
• Anna Viaene, Lichtervelde
• Aleida Idsinga (59), Zwolle

• 1857 » Bobby Peel, English cricketer and coach († 1943)
• 1857 » Eugène Atget, French photographer († 1927)
• 1861 » Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author († 1937)
• 1866 » Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher († 1938)
• 1869 » Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor († 1884)
• 1870 » Marie Lloyd, English actress and singer († 1922)
• 1876 » 13th Dalai Lama († 1933)
• 1877 » Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault († 1944)
• 1880 » George Preca, Maltese priest and saint († 1962)
• 1880 » John L. Lewis, American miner and union leader († 1969)

• 1799 » Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist and physiologist (b. 1729)
• 1804 » Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1724)
• 1834 » Friedrich Schleiermacher, German philosopher and scholar (b. 1768)
• 1886 » Randolph Caldecott, English-American painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
• 1894 » Hans von Bülow, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Ambroise Thomas, French composer and academic (b. 1811)
• 1912 » Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (b. 1841)
• 1915 » Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, philosopher, and academic (b. 1831)
• 1929 » Lillie Langtry, English singer and actress (b. 1853)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Klaas
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Antje
15. Mary
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
• February 27 » Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
• April 3 » The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
• May 3 » Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• May 27 » Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
• June 30 » The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
• October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.

The temperature on February 12, 1860 was about -5.8 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.