From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
Weather December 26, 1871
The temperature on December 26, 1871 was about 3.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.
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