The temperature on September 16, 1864 was about 17.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
May 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
June 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
August 10 » After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
November 11 » American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.
November 29 » American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
Day of death November 17, 1864
The temperature on November 17, 1864 was about 1.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 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 24 » American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
September 7 » American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
November 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.
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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