Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Jerry ROBILLARD (1864-1893)

Day of death January 15, 1893

• The temperature on January 15, 1893 was about -8.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
  • January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
  • June 13 » Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
  • July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
  • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
  • November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)