The temperature on April 1, 1871 was about 6.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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.
January 3 » In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
January 18 » Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
Day of marriage October 25, 1894
The temperature on October 25, 1894 was about 10.3 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
Day of death March 10, 1923
The temperature on March 10, 1923 was between 0.4 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
September 26 » The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
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