Family tree Van Rijn » Carolina Charlotte de Lorme (1879-????)

Birthday January 23, 1879

• The temperature on January 23, 1879 was about -4.3 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1879: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
  • February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
  • March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
  • May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
  • September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
  • October 21 » Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.

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• 1872 » Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik Parliament († 1957)
• 1872 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic († 1946)
• 1876 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1878 » Rutland Boughton, English composer († 1960)
• 1880 » Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Mexican politician († 1967)
• 1889 » Claribel Kendall, American mathematician (d.1965)