• The temperature on October 29, 1881 was about 2.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
  • September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

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• 1879 » Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician († 1941)
• 1879 » Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany († 1969)
• 1880 » Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic († 1960)
• 1881 » John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower († 1930)
• 1882 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright († 1944)
• 1883 » Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player († 1966)