The temperature on January 4, 1865 was about 2.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
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.
April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
November 26 » Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
Day of marriage March 7, 1891
The temperature on March 7, 1891 was about 6.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
Day of death April 27, 1898
The temperature on April 27, 1898 was about 17.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. Source: KNMI
February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
August 11 » Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
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