Genealogie Janssen-de Groot » Johannes Laurentius Scholtes (1879-????)

Birthday March 23, 1879

• The temperature on March 23, 1879 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 39 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 39%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1879: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
  • January 22 » The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
  • February 8 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
  • March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
  • May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
  • May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1881 » Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1881 » Lacey Hearn, American sprinter († 1969)
• 1881 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)