Family tree Eizenga-Vis » Jan Pieters de Jong (1865-????)

Birthday December 25, 1865

• The temperature on December 25, 1865 was about -2.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • March 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
  • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
  • July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Pud Galvin, American baseball player and manager († 1902)
• 1861 » Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress († 1946)
• 1865 » Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army († 1950)
• 1869 » Charles Finger, English-American journalist and author († 1941)
• 1870 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1965)
• 1873 » Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator († 1959)