Eijsermans family tree » Christina van Bakel (1865-????)

Birthday December 21, 1865

• The temperature on December 21, 1865 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
  • 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 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
  • May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
  • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1866 » Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and political activist († 1953)
• 1868 » George W. Fuller, American chemist and engineer († 1934)
• 1872 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1872 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian priest and composer († 1956)
• 1872 » Trevor Kincaid, Canadian-American zoologist and academic († 1970)