The Brown Tree » Jane Elizabeth FOWLER (1865-????)

Birthday May 29, 1865

• The temperature on May 29, 1865 was about 19.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
  • January 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
  • November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer († 1909)
• 1871 » Clark Voorhees, American painter († 1933)
• 1873 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer († 1918)
• 1874 » G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright († 1936)
• 1880 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher († 1936)
• 1892 » Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author († 1938)