About the day » Tuesday January 31, 1865Calender converter

• Adriaan Swart, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1866)
• Alfred Gustave LATTELAIS, Villers-Écalles,76360,Seine-Maritime,HAUTE-NORMANDIE,FRANCE
• Akke Zeilstra, Lemmer († 1865)
• Anna Blankwater, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1904)
• Alexander Victor Devos, Harelbeke (België-West-Vlaanderen) († 1933)
• Adolf Messerschmidt, Hesselbach, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Kenselaar, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1865)
• Albertus Zirschky, (FR) Leeuwarden
• Adelheid van Grainger, Heiligblut, Oberbayern, Beieren († 1952)
• Alphonsius Maria Kneepkens, Budel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1928)

• Anthonie de ROO (41), Ommerschans, Overijssel, Nederland
• (m) Dickel (0), Schüllar, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Aagje VAN BLITTERSWIJK, Tiel
• Hezemans (0), Eindhoven
• aagje BOOMAN (0), zuid beijerland
• (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland,NL
• Fokke Alberts Slootstra (51), Weststellingwerf
• "Antonetta" Antonia Antonia (37), Rosmalen, NL
• Anna Riool (1), Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Kuper (75), Steenwijk

• 1854 » David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1865 » Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist († 1940)
• 1865 » Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS († 1951)
• 1868 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1872 » Zane Grey, American author († 1939)
• 1881 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1884 » Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan († 1955)
• 1884 » Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany († 1963)
• 1889 » Frank Foster, English cricketer († 1958)
• 1892 » Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer († 1964)

• 1815 » José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan soldier (b. 1775)
• 1828 » Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)
• 1836 » John Cheyne, English physician and author (b. 1777)
• 1844 » Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
• 1856 » 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838)
• 1870 » Cilibi Moise, Moldavian-Romanian journalist and author (b. 1812)
• 1888 » John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
• 1892 » Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
• April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
• April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.

The temperature on January 31, 1865 was about 1.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.