About the day » Monday February 24, 1862Calender converter

• Aaltje Pronk, Bruntinge, Westerbork († 1899)
• Adriana de Pagter, Middelburg († 1920)
• Aaltjen Stegeman, Verwolde († 1865)
• Aaltje van der Hoek, Hillegom († 1944)
• Abraham Haartsen, Groede, Zeeland, Nederland († 1952)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Buitendijk, Groote Lindt, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Johanna Deuling, Vlagtwedde († 1866)
• Anna Wijnants, Maastricht († 1862)
• Aleida Johanna Schemkes, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1940)
• Andries Sibbe Boer, Noord-Waddinxveen († 1901)

• Barbara Noble (55), Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Arent van der Bok (70), Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Schue (2), Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Antje Krietemeier (0)
• Barbara Wie (54), Akersloot,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Antonie Jacobus Wijnants (48), 's-Gravenhage,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arent van der BOK Jzn (70), Ouddorp, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Ann Flux (76), Northwood, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
• Abiathar Austin (88), Canton, Oxford, Maine, United States
• Aren van der Bok (71), Ouddorp

• 1842 » Arrigo Boito, Italian journalist, author, and composer († 1918)
• 1848 » Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician († 1907)
• 1852 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and playwright († 1933)
• 1868 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player († 1949)
• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)

• 1799 » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (b. 1742)
• 1810 » Henry Cavendish, French-English physicist and chemist (b. 1731)
• 1812 » Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
• 1815 » Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Aaltje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Trijntje
14. Neeltje
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 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).
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• March 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
• April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
• May 5 » Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
• July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.

The temperature on February 24, 1862 was about 2.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.