Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Petrus Johannes PRETORIUS (1884-1914)

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    Historical events

    Birthday January 21, 1884

    • The temperature on January 21, 1884 was about 6.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
      • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
      • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
      • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
      • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
      • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

    Day of death November 12, 1914

    • The temperature on November 12, 1914 was between 4.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
      • February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
      • May 25 » The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
      • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
      • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
      • September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
      • December 24 » World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
    

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