About the day » Tuesday April 22, 1862Calender converter

• Albert Jan Stokreef, Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1862)
• Adriana Cornelia Luijks, Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1894)
• adriana van DIJK, ijsselmonde
• Carolus Ludovicus MADOU, Keiem, Flandre, Belgique
• Arie den HARTOGH, Lexmond
• Arij BRAND, Dubbeldam
• Arie Brand, Dubbeldam, Nederland
• Antonio de Vasconcelos Machado, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Boelo Lazarus, Oudeschans, The Netherlands
• Aart Adrianus Koster, Charlois († 1864)

• Adriaan Donse (75), Terneuzen
• Antonius Baljet (58), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Arnoldus Leenders (30), Deurne en Liessel
• Arie van den Heuvel (6), Numansdorp
• Antonia Paulina Maria Vermeulen (15), Oudenbosch, Halderberge, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Bonroy (43), Zichem, 3271 België
• Anthonius Baljet (58), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Helena Punt (10), Klundert (N.B.)
• Arie Ketting (2), Pernis
• Antje Tjebbes Smids (43), Oostdongeradeel

• 1852 » William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg († 1912)
• 1854 » Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1858 » Ethel Smyth, English composer († 1944)
• 1860 » Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress († 1916)
• 1870 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia († 1924)
• 1872 » Princess Margaret of Prussia († 1954)
• 1873 » Ellen Glasgow, American author († 1945)
• 1876 » Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler and strongman († 1920)
• 1876 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1879 » Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player († 1939)

• 1821 » Gregory V of Constantinople, Greek patriarch and saint (b. 1746)
• 1833 » Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (b. 1771)
• 1850 » Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798)
• 1854 » Nicolás Bravo, Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (b. 1786)
• 1871 » Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1806)
• 1877 » James P. Kirkwood, Scottish-American engineer (b. 1807)
• 1892 » Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (b. 1825)
• 1894 » Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (b. 1868)
• 1896 » Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (b. 1812)

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. 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 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 16 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
• February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
• May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
• July 18 » First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
• December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

The temperature on April 22, 1862 was about 11.1 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.