About the day » Tuesday July 1, 1862Calender converter

• Annigje in't Veld, Dubbeldam († 1862)
• ALBERTJE KOEKOEK, DEDEMSVAART († 1935)
• Alida Hendrika Duijndam, Monster
• Anna Dolk, Zevenbergen (N.B.)
• Anna Maria Zugehör, Kirn, Rijnland-Palts, Duitsland († 1869)
• Adriaantje Rietveld, noordeloos (zuid holland) († 1933)
• Anna Schimmel, Kronau, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Adolphina Marie Léontine BAUDOUX, Genappe, Waals-Brabant, België († 1950)
• Aafje Elizabeth Warner, Groningen
• Albert Martin Ludwig von Boeckmann Beckmann, Mudla Wirra Rd, SA, Australia († 1904)

• (85), Westwoud
• Adriana de Oude (66), Zierikzee
• Aaltje Oliemans (0), Aarlanderveen
• Aaltje Geerligs (69), Zwolle,Gemeente Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaffien KRAAIMA (1), Bedum
• Ammial Thompson (71), East Abington, mass
• Abert Boes (54), Balloo, Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus Wilhelmus Bots (47), Gemert, Nederland
• Albert BOES (54), Balloo, Rolde
• Anna Margaretha Deuss (62), Limbricht, Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1850 » Florence Earle Coates, American poet († 1927)
• 1858 » Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer of prose and poetry († 1924)
• 1858 » Willard Metcalf, American painter († 1925)
• 1863 » William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer († 1892)
• 1869 » William Strunk Jr., American author and educator († 1946)
• 1872 » Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer († 1936)
• 1872 » William Duddell, English physicist and engineer († 1917)
• 1873 » Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1873 » Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands († 1954)
• 1875 » Joseph Weil, American con man († 1976)

• 1819 » the Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (b. 1752)
• 1839 » Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1863 » John F. Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)
• 1884 » Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (b. 1811)
• 1905 » John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)
• 1912 » Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1925 » Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander (b. 1887)

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.
• February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
• March 13 » The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves was passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
• April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
• 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.
• August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.

The temperature on July 1, 1862 was about 13.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.