About the day » Sunday December 24, 1865Calender converter

• Alida Vitters, Delft, ZH, Nederland († 1955)
• Aaltje Wessel, Nieuw Amsterdam († 1956)
• Adriana van de Belt, Stoutenburg {UT}
• Aart Docter, Barneveld
• Aaltje Wessel, Emmen
• DOODGEBOREN, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1865)
• Aafke Smit, Oldehove (gem. Westerkwartier) († 1933)
• Aafke BRANDSMA, Wonseradeel(Friesland) († 1929)
• Vunderink, Deventer († 1865)
• Abraham de Smidt, Breskens († 1936)

• Anna Maria van Toren (Tooren) (58), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Ariensdr van Veelen (69), Monster
• Arie (van der Lee) Visee (77), Langbroek, Nederland
• (1), Scheerwolde (Steenwijkerwold), Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Maris van Toor (58), Oss
• Aart Aartsz Van GENT (81), Rhoon
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Spierenburg (0), Utrecht
• Alberdina Francina Lans (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• DOODGEBOREN (0), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Margaretha Godfrieds Eisenach (60), Oude Pekela

• 1865 » Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, educator, and diplomat, founded the Askenazy school († 1935)
• 1867 » Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator († 1915)
• 1868 » Charles Harvey Bollman, American naturalist († 1889)
• 1868 » Emanuel Lasker, German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher († 1941)
• 1869 » Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet, playwright, and politician († 1952)
• 1872 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player († 1927)
• 1875 » Émile Wegelin, French rower († 1962)
• 1877 » Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter and critic († 1979)
• 1879 » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet († 1941)
• 1879 » Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin († 1952)

• 1844 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (b. 1803)
• 1863 » William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811)
• 1865 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)
• 1867 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)
• 1868 » Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
• 1872 » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
• 1873 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch pastor and poet (b. 1819)
• 1893 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (b. 1807)

• 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.
• April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
• May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
• May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
• July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
• December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks
• December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The temperature on December 24, 1865 was about -1.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.