Family tree familie Smit » Marinus de Wit (1865-????)

Birthday December 16, 1865

• The temperature on December 16, 1865 was about 7.0 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1861 » Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1863 » George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet († 1952)
• 1865 » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet († 1918)
• 1866 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist († 1944)
• 1867 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian († 1951)
• 1869 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization († 1952)