Purvis Farquhar » Johanna Wilhelmina Roep (1865-????)

Birthday April 22, 1865

• The temperature on April 22, 1865 was about 17.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 32%. 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: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
  • April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1858 » Ethel Smyth, English composer († 1944)
• 1860 » Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress († 1916)
• 1870 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia († 1924)
• 1872 » Princess Margaret of Prussia († 1954)
• 1873 » Ellen Glasgow, American author († 1945)