Eijsermans family tree » Constantijn-lee -jos Jurgens (1879-????)

Birthday December 12, 1879

• The temperature on December 12, 1879 was about 1.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 22 » The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
  • January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
  • July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
  • July 8 » Sailing ship USSJeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
  • August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
  • October 15 » The Segura river in southeastern Spain floods, killing 1077 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)
• 1870 » Walter Benona Sharp, American businessman, co-founded Hughes Tool Company († 1912)
• 1876 » Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and runner († 1928)
• 1881 » Louise Thuliez, French school teacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II and author († 1966)
• 1889 » Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 1889 » Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804)