The temperature on February 1, 1862 was about 10.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
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.
February 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
August 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
December 26 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
Christening day March 23, 1862
The temperature on March 23, 1862 was about 2.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
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.
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 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
June 9 » American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
August 28 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
December 31 » American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Day of marriage January 26, 1892
The temperature on January 26, 1892 was about 1.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
October 21 » Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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