Family tree Jan van Nielen (Carnisse ca 1600) » Petronella Bernardina van NIEL (1862-1862)

Birthday September 7, 1862

• The temperature on September 7, 1862 was about 15.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
  • June 1 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
  • July 18 » First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
  • September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
  • December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • December 13 » American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » William Friese-Greene, English photographer, director, and cinematographer († 1921)
• 1860 » Grandma Moses, American painter († 1961)
• 1862 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist († 1932)
• 1866 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright († 1947)
• 1867 » Albert Bassermann, German-Swiss actor († 1952)
• 1867 » J. P. Morgan Jr., American banker and philanthropist († 1943)