About the day » Tuesday February 18, 1862Calender converter

• Adrianus Johannes Stolker, Bodegraven († 1877)
• Anna Miltenburg, Ruwiel, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1928)
• Aaron De Jonge, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Maten)
• Albert Meijer, Sibculo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1901)
• Aaltjen Wilmink, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1936)
• Aaltje Oranje, Schiedam
• Adrianus De JONG, Strijen
• Agatha Thecla Wortelboer, Oude Pekela († 1899)
• Adrianus Laureijssen, Chaam († 1947)
• Amelia MATTHYS, Sint Pieters Rode Vl.Brabant († 1939)

• Andrew Rhyne Clymer
• Aalbert Staal (0), Putten-Hoef
• Adrianus Leijs (77), Etten Leur
• Adriaan de Louw (67), Bergeijk
• Alice C. Shellaberger (8), Miami County, OH
• Adriaan Leijs (77), Etten-Leur, Nederland
• Adregesina de ZWART (11), Kuinre, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans Veling- (70), Wildervank, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans Veling (70), Veendam, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Bos, Lunteren

• 1846 » Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager († 1904)
• 1848 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist († 1933)
• 1849 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician († 1906)
• 1850 » George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor († 1934)
• 1855 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French historian, author, and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States († 1932)
• 1860 » Anders Zorn, Swedish artist († 1920)
• 1862 » Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel († 1939)
• 1867 » Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer († 1950)
• 1870 » William Laurel Harris, American painter and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Harry Brearley, English inventor († 1948)

• 1803 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
• 1873 » Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)
• 1880 » Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
• 1906 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
• 1911 » Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Frank James, American soldier and criminal (b. 1843)

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 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
• April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
• April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
• May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
• August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

The temperature on February 18, 1862 was about 3.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.