Eijsermans family tree » Hubertus Cornelis van Strien (1865-????)

Birthday February 15, 1865

• The temperature on February 15, 1865 was about -11.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • July 27 » Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
  • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist and academic († 1926)
• 1861 » Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher († 1947)
• 1861 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1938)
• 1861 » Martin Burns, American wrestler and coach († 1937)
• 1873 » Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1874 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish captain and explorer († 1922)