Van Lerberghe genealogy » Marie Ghislaine WADIN puis DEPREZ (1865-1893)

Birthday October 31, 1865

• The temperature on October 31, 1865 was about 12.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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.
  • April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

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