The temperature on December 17, 1871 was about 3.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
November 16 » The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.
December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
Day of marriage July 18, 1891
The temperature on July 18, 1891 was about 22.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
May 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
Day of death March 29, 1900
The temperature on March 29, 1900 was about 0.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
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