Family trees Bakker 1. » Cornelis van Westen (1879-????)

Birthday March 4, 1879

• The temperature on March 4, 1879 was about 5.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1879: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
  • January 25 » The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
  • March 29 » Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
  • April 5 » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
  • May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
  • July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1878 » Takeo Arishima, Japanese author and critic († 1923)
• 1879 » Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet († 1951)
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