The temperature on January 14, 1865 was about 5.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
Day of death August 23, 1886
The temperature on August 23, 1886 was about 22.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
August 31 » The 7.0 Mw Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
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