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Day of marriage April 29, 1865

• The temperature on April 29, 1865 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%. 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.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • 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.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.

Day of death December 21, 1876

• The temperature on December 21, 1876 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 2 » The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
  • March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
  • June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
  • July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
  • August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
  • August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1824 » James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)