January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
July 10 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
July 11 » Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
July 15 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
Day of death March 31, 1884
The temperature on March 31, 1884 was about 16.1 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. Source: KNMI
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.
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