Genealogy Billion » Camille BILLION (1877-????)

Birthday November 24, 1877

• The temperature on November 24, 1877 was about 3.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 74 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)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
  • May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
  • May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
  • July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
  • September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
  • November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Julius Martov, Russian politician († 1923)
• 1874 » Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee († 1953)
• 1876 » Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra († 1937)
• 1877 » Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States († 1956)
• 1877 » Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer († 1941)
• 1879 » Wylie Cameron Grant, American tennis player († 1968)