About the day » Friday March 24, 1865Calender converter

• Alfred Edmond Hubert, Zétrud-Lumay
• Anna Belle Coleman, Maryland
• * Maria Zwakhals, Heukelum († 1941)
• * Roelofje (2) Bor, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL († 1866)
• Adrianus Gijsbertus Geerts, Empel en Meerwijk, Nederland († 1939)
• N.N., Veendam († 1865)
• Dalhuisen, Epe († 1865)
• André Ernest CORCY, Rozet-Saint-Albin, 02210, Aisne, Picardie, FRANCE
• Aleida Schoppers, Aalten (GL) († 1936)
• Anje Dam, Loppersum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1909)

• Albert Gerrits de Jonge (62), Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Amos Leach Renfro (0), Wayne City, Wayne, Illinois, United States
• Adrianus Weiling (52), Deventer
• Abraham Anthonie Vermeij (13), Oud-Vossemeer, Tholen, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Lieshout (0), Erp, Nederland
• Anna Maria Paleari (44), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• ADRIAAN GEENE (58), OUD-VOSSEMEER
• Alida Roukens (0), Tiel
• Anna CREPEL (70), Pamel
• Jacobus Ba(a)ten (1), Steenbergen

• 1854 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia († 1930)
• 1855 » Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1937)
• 1855 » Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist († 1920)
• 1862 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator († 1951)
• 1869 » Émile Fabre, French author and playwright († 1955)
• 1871 » Alec Hurley, English music hall singer († 1913)
• 1874 » Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor († 1926)
• 1874 » Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic († 1961)
• 1875 » William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player († 1953)
• 1879 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer († 1953)

• 1824 » Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)
• 1838 » Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)
• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)

• 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 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
• May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
• May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
• May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
• June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
• December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

The temperature on March 24, 1865 was about 5.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.