Family tree Engel-Van Mierlo » Maria Christina (Maria Christina) de-Wit (1883-????)

Birthday September 2, 1883

• The temperature on September 2, 1883 was about 16.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 28 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
  • June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
  • October 4 » First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
  • October 20 » Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
  • October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
  • December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1956)
• 1878 » Herman, Estonian-Finnish archbishop († 1961)
• 1878 » Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat († 1920)
• 1878 » Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal († 1946)
• 1883 » Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria († 1963)
• 1884 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic († 1970)