The temperature on December 29, 1863 was about 7.6 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
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.
January 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
January 11 » American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
April 2 » American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
May 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
July 13 » New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
October 31 » The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.
Day of death January 16, 1864
The temperature on January 16, 1864 was about -5.1 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. Source: KNMI
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.
March 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
June 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
August 22 » Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
October 9 » American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
December 15 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat unit.
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