Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » Joannes Josephus Pâques (1878-????)

Birthday December 10, 1878

• The temperature on December 10, 1878 was about -5.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 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 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
  • 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.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

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• 1878 » C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India († 1972)
• 1882 » Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1945)
• 1882 » Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1950)
• 1883 » Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic († 1973)
• 1885 » Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor († 1967)