Family tree Suijkerbuijk/de Koning - Smit/Koenen » Hendrika Mathilda Sevenstern (1865-????)

Birthday January 1, 1865

• The temperature on January 1, 1865 was about -0.4 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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.
  • March 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
  • April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • 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 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Michael Joseph Owens, American inventor († 1923)
• 1860 » Michele Lega, Italian cardinal († 1935)
• 1863 » Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee († 1937)
• 1864 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator († 1946)
• 1864 » Qi Baishi, Chinese painter († 1957)
• 1867 » Mary Ackworth Evershed, English astronomer and scholar († 1949)