Stambaum Bõttner » Anna Sophie Kathrine Oestmann (1865-1866)

Birthday June 24, 1865

• The temperature on June 24, 1865 was about 18.3 °C. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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.
  • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
  • March 29 » American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Henry Chapman Mercer, American archaeologist and author († 1930)
• 1858 » Hastings Rashdall, English historian, philosopher, and theologian († 1924)
• 1865 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator († 1929)
• 1867 » Ruth Randall Edström, American educator and activist († 1944)
• 1869 » Prince George of Greece and Denmark († 1957)
• 1872 » Frank Crowninshield, American journalist and art and theatre critic († 1947)