Gemeente Archief Amsterdam 13/66v Geboren te Amsterdam op 21 december 1899 voormiddag acht uur in het huis Ferdinand Bolstraat 61 een kind van het mannelijk geslacht: Joseph Johannes Antonius. Vader: Johannes Hendricus Cornelis Letschert, diamantslijper, 23 jaar Moeder: Helena Wilhelmina Klaverstijn
akte 21-12-1899 reg.13 folio 66v
Gemeente Archief Amsterdam 6/71v Overleden te Amsterdam op 16-9-1900: Joseph Hendricus Antonius Letschert Vader: Johannes Hendricus Cornelis Letschert Moeder: Helena Wilhelmina Klaverstijn
February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of death September 16, 1900
The temperature on September 16, 1900 was about 15.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
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