About the day » Tuesday January 7, 1862Calender converter

• Aginus Bot, Sliedrecht († 1945)
• Andries Hekman, Rheeze († 1862)
• Alida Wilhelmina Lington, Utrecht († 1862)
• (m) Wilhelmi, Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Annie Euphemia Baker, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia († 1952)
• * Maria Vrolijk, Rotterdam
• Anne Pera, Hoogkerk, Groningen, Nederland († 1941)
• Aartje Willemina Jacoba van der VOORT, Giessendam
• Anje Bos, Godlinze, Bierum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1893)
• Alice Maud Coy, Gravesend, Kent, England († 1953)

• Adriana Leonora Bout (23), Rembang, Midden-Java, Indonesië
• Auke Siebes Sijbinga (83), Marum
• Adrianus Moerman (14), Rockanje, Nederland
• Auke Siebes Siebinga (83), Marum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Gozewinus Vos (25), Wageningen, Nederland
• Abraham Zonnevijlle (77), Retranchement, Zeeland, Nederland
• adrianus hendrik somer (43), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• abraham sonneville (77), retranchement
• Auke Sybes Sijbinga (83), Marum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arjen Sierks Zondervan (55), St. Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland

• 1837 » Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company († 1899)
• 1844 » Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint († 1879)
• 1858 » Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist († 1922)
• 1863 » Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden († 1955)
• 1871 » Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician († 1956)
• 1873 » Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures († 1976)
• 1873 » Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist († 1914)
• 1875 » Gustav Flatow, German gymnast († 1945)
• 1876 » William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer († 1906)
• 1877 » William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer († 1928)

• 1812 » Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (b. 1768)
• 1830 » John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
• 1830 » Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (b. 1769)
• 1858 » Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1800)
• 1864 » Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)
• 1893 » Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
• 1920 » Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• 1927 » Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)

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.
• January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
• March 23 » American Civil War: The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
• May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• June 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
• October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
• December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

The temperature on January 7, 1862 was about 2.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.