Family tree Vercauteren » Maria Charlotta Hemelaer (1862-????)

Birthday March 24, 1862

• The temperature on March 24, 1862 was about 15.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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.
  • January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
  • February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
  • April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
  • June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
  • December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia († 1930)
• 1855 » Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1937)
• 1855 » Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist († 1920)
• 1862 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator († 1951)
• 1869 » Émile Fabre, French author and playwright († 1955)
• 1871 » Alec Hurley, English music hall singer († 1913)