Eijsermans family tree » Maria Johanna Houbraken (1865-????)

Birthday January 3, 1865

• The temperature on January 3, 1865 was about -2.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • January 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Ernest Renshaw, English tennis player († 1899)
• 1861 » William Renshaw, English tennis player († 1904)
• 1862 » Matthew Nathan, English soldier and politician, 13th Governor of Queensland († 1939)
• 1865 » Henry Lytton, English actor († 1936)
• 1870 » Henry Handel Richardson, Australian-English author († 1946)
• 1873 » Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman and art collector, founded the Hankyu Hanshin Holdings († 1957)