Birrell family tree » Ellenor Elizabeth Grieve (1881-1881)

Birthday February 3, 1881

• The temperature on February 3, 1881 was about 6.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Source: Wikipedia

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