Descendants Heeres » Geertje Nieuwenhuis (1865-????)

Birthday January 15, 1865

• The temperature on January 15, 1865 was about 2.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
• 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.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1863 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany († 1946)
• 1866 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, historian, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1931)
• 1869 » Ruby Laffoon, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Kentucky († 1941)
• 1869 » Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish poet, playwright, and painter († 1907)
• 1870 » Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist († 1954)