The Brown Tree » William DILWORTH (1862-????)

Birthday May 1, 1862

• The temperature on May 1, 1862 was about 16.9 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
  • June 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
  • September 17 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
  • September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
  • November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
  • December 17 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, Jewish Ukrainian-American journalist, actor, and playwright († 1909)
• 1855 » Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic († 1942)
• 1857 » Theo van Gogh, Dutch art dealer († 1891)
• 1859 » Jacqueline Comerre-Paton, French painter and sculptor († 1955)
• 1862 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright († 1941)
• 1864 » Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day († 1948)