Sluzigers (e.a.) » Derk Bergman (1839-1884)

Day of marriage January 27, 1865

• The temperature on January 27, 1865 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • 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.
  • June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

Day of death September 20, 1884

• The temperature on September 20, 1884 was about 15.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)
• 1884 » Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)
• 1898 » Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1906 » Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
• 1908 » Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)