FutureHistory » Maria Schijn‏‎ (Scheyn) (1878-????)

Birthday October 12, 1878

• The temperature on October 12, 1878 was about 10.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • 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.
  • October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

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