The temperature on August 10, 1864 was about 17.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 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.
June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
July 22 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
Day of death December 19, 1864
The temperature on December 19, 1864 was about -3.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
February 27 » American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
May 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
July 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
November 15 » American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.
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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