FutureHistory » Carolus Alphonsus "Charles" (Carolus Alphonsus "Charles") Wittock (1862-????)

Birthday September 23, 1862

• The temperature on September 23, 1862 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
  • March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
  • April 29 » American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
  • May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
  • September 15 » American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).
  • September 22 » A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
  • November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH († 1942)
• 1863 » Mary Church Terrell, American author and activist († 1954)
• 1865 » Emma Orczy, Hungarian-English author and playwright († 1947)
• 1865 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter († 1933)
• 1865 » Suzanne Valadon, French model and painter († 1938)
• 1867 » John Lomax, American teacher, musicologist, and folklorist († 1948)