Family tree Griffioen Jellema Friese Adel » Maria Simons Bloemsma (1885-????)

Birthday July 1, 1885

• The temperature on July 1, 1885 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 1885: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
  • February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  • April 2 » Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
  • June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
  • July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
  • July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1881 » Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist († 1965)
• 1882 » Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal († 1962)
• 1883 » Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient († 1933)
• 1885 » Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet († 1968)
• 1887 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar († 1981)