RanHam Tree » James R Ridgway (1829-1884)
Personal data James R Ridgway
Source 1- He was born on May 20, 1829 in Newport, Vermillion, Missouri, United States.
- He died on January 2, 1884 in Nevada, Vernon, Missouri, United States, he was 54 years old.
- A child of John Caliph /Ridgway Ridgeway and Margaret Crume
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Birthday May 20, 1829
- The temperature on May 20, 1829 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder winderig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1829: Source: Wikipedia
- March 22 » In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
- June 10 » The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
- August 3 » The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
- September 11 » Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico. This was the consummation of Mexico's campaign for independence.
- October 1 » South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa. It will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
- December 4 » In the face of fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who abets suttee in Bengal is guilty of culpable homicide.
Day of death January 2, 1884
- The temperature on January 2, 1884 was about -3.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
- April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
- May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
- August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
- October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
- November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
Same birth/death day
- 1818 » William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express († 1881)
- 1822 » Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1912)
- 1824 » Cadmus M. Wilcox, Confederate States Army general († 1890)
- 1825 » Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the U.S. († 1921)
- 1830 » Hector Malot, French author († 1907)
- 1838 » Jules Méline, French lawyer and politician, 65th Prime Minister of France († 1925)
- 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
- 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
- 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
- 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
- 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
- 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
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Randy James Hammock, "RanHam Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/ranham-tree/P2563.php : accessed September 30, 2026), "James R Ridgway (1829-1884)".