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Birthday October 18, 1865

• The temperature on October 18, 1865 was about 14.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • 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.
  • June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1862 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general († 1952)
• 1865 » Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author († 1957)
• 1865 » Logan Pearsall Smith, American-English author and critic († 1946)
• 1868 » Ernst Didring, Swedish author († 1931)
• 1870 » D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar († 1966)