Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Maria Elisabeth Brand (1870-1873)

Christening day August 29, 1870

• The temperature on August 29, 1870 was about 15.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 6 » The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
  • January 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
  • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  • November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
  • December 12 » Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.

Day of death November 5, 1873

• The temperature on November 5, 1873 was about 7.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 17 » A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
  • March 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
  • April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
  • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
  • June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
  • August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

Day of burial November 9, 1873

• The temperature on November 9, 1873 was about 4.9 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
  • March 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
  • August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
  • August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
  • September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
  • September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1872 » Thomas Sully, English-American painter (b. 1783)
• 1876 » Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
• 1879 » James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (b. 1831)
• 1923 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1928 » Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (b. 1872)
• 1930 » Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)