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Christening day September 17, 1876

• The temperature on September 17, 1876 was about 17.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
  • March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
  • May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
  • June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
  • October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
  • December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

Day of marriage November 22, 1610

• Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1610: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 7 » Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
  • May 14 » Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne.
  • July 4 » The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War.
  • August 2 » During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
  • August 9 » The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
  • October 17 » French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.

Day of death March 1, 1640

• Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1640: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 5 » King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
  • August 28 » Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
  • October 26 » The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Covenanter Scotland and King Charles.
  • December 1 » End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1620 » Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
• 1633 » George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
• 1643 » Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1583)
• 1661 » Richard Zouch, English judge and politician (b. 1590)
• 1666 » Ecaterina Cercheza, princess consort of Moldavia (b. 1620)
• 1697 » Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet (b. 1626)