About the day » Thursday December 26, 1861Calender converter

• Angelina Ververgaert, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Aleida Pieterdina Bloksma, (DR) Meppel († 1866)
• Anke JAKOBS, Tolbert Groningen Netherlands († 1954)
• Angelina VERVERGAERT (VERVERGAARD), Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Adriaan van IJsseldijk, Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1910)
• (..kus) Marcus Bein, Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Adriaan van EEKELEN, Halsteren (Nl) († 1888)
• Adriana in 't Veld, Meeuwen, Hill en Babylonienbroek († 1927)
• Albert Pauw van Wieldrecht, Utrecht († 1862)
• Adriana Voskuil, Hof van Delft († 1861)

• Antonetta van den HURK (74), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus (Jannes) Gaal (25), Steenwijkerwold
• Daniel van der Ent (0), rhoon (zuid holland)
• Cornelia Adami van Herpt (75), Baardwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Benjamin (Barend) Stofkoper (60), Vlissingen, 4380, Nederland
• Anna Eshleman (88), Providence, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
• Bernhard Hermann Johann Keuss (63), Neuenkirchen (Noordrijn-Westfalen), Duitsland
• Carl Christian Ernst Springer (1), Veckenstedt (Landkrs. Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt/Sassen-Anholt)
• Alida Cornelia van der Hoeff (9), Everdingen, Utrecht, NL
• Adrianus Gaal (25), Steenwijkerwold, Nederland

• 1852 » Johannes François Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer († 1938)
• 1853 » René Bazin, French author and academic († 1932)
• 1854 » José Yves Limantour, Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance († 1935)
• 1859 » William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California († 1944)
• 1863 » Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records († 1957)
• 1864 » Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician († 1945)
• 1867 » Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist († 1942)
• 1872 » Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1873 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer († 1953)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 9 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
• April 13 » American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• June 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
• August 19 » First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
• December 10 » Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.

The temperature on December 26, 1861 was about -1.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.