Genealogie Rier » Maria Anna Schovert (1870-????)

Birthday August 22, 1870

• The temperature on August 22, 1870 was about 18.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 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).
• In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
  • January 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
  • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • July 1 » The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
  • August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
  • October 2 » A plebiscite held in Rome, supports annexation of city of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer († 1918)
• 1867 » Charles Francis Jenkins, American inventor († 1934)
• 1867 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist († 1939)
• 1868 » Willis R. Whitney, American chemist († 1958)
• 1873 » Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher († 1928)
• 1874 » Max Scheler, German philosopher and author († 1928)