January 21 » After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
January 23 » Second Partition of Poland.
May 23 » Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
June 10 » The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
November 10 » A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
December 25 » General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
Day of death November 17, 1873
The temperature on November 17, 1873 was about 5.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
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