Family tree Jonker » Hans Sjoukes Schilstra (1883-????)

Birthday May 21, 1883

• The temperature on May 21, 1883 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
  • May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
  • August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
  • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

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• 1873 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic († 1941)
• 1878 » Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer († 1930)
• 1880 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author, and poet († 1967)
• 1884 » Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher († 1920)
• 1885 » Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) († 1936)
• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)