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Birthday March 15, 1862

• The temperature on March 15, 1862 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 3.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
  • May 5 » Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • June 6 » American Civil War: Battle of Memphis: Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
  • June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
  • June 9 » American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Liberty Hyde Bailey, American botanist and academic, co-founded the American Society for Horticultural Science († 1954)
• 1860 » Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss bacteriologist and microbiologist († 1930)
• 1864 » Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (Oslo Philharmonic) († 1935)
• 1865 » Manuk Abeghian, Armenian author and scholar († 1944)
• 1866 » Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor, often erroneously identified as the inventor of the Paper clip († 1910)
• 1866 » Matthew Charlton, Australian miner and politician († 1948)