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 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
  • 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 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
  • December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then 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)