Family tree Wim en Annelies de Leede » Pieter Marinus Brandwijk (1865-????)

Birthday September 7, 1865

• The temperature on September 7, 1865 was about 27.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Grandma Moses, American painter († 1961)
• 1862 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist († 1932)
• 1866 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright († 1947)
• 1867 » Albert Bassermann, German-Swiss actor († 1952)
• 1867 » J. P. Morgan Jr., American banker and philanthropist († 1943)
• 1869 » Ben Viljoen, South African general († 1917)