Family tree De Backer - Evers » Maria Emerentiana Brion (1862-1898)

Birthday July 7, 1862

• The temperature on July 7, 1862 was about 18.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 22 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
  • February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
  • April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
  • May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Ludwig Ganghofer, German author and playwright († 1920)
• 1859 » Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian politician († 1911)
• 1860 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor († 1911)
• 1861 » Nettie Stevens, American geneticist († 1912)
• 1869 » Fernande Sadler (d.1949), French painter and mayor
• 1869 » Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic († 1938)