The Forgotten Ones » Sarah Ann Royer (1864-????)

Birthday March 4, 1864

• The temperature on March 4, 1864 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
  • June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
  • June 15 » American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
  • September 29 » The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
  • December 10 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian and author († 1933)
• 1862 » Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist († 1940)
• 1863 » John Henry Wigmore, American academic and jurist († 1943)
• 1863 » R. I. Pocock, English zoologist and archaeologist († 1947)
• 1864 » David W. Taylor, American admiral, architect, and engineer († 1940)
• 1866 » Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer († 1931)