Eijsermans family tree » Joannis Cornelius Vermeer (1878-????)

Birthday July 22, 1878

• The temperature on July 22, 1878 was about 24.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
  • January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author († 1942)
• 1881 » Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology († 1966)
• 1882 » Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher († 1967)
• 1884 » Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut († 1967)
• 1886 » Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author († 1954)
• 1887 » Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)