March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
May 15 » War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Day of death December 26, 1870
The temperature on December 26, 1870 was about -5.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
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).
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