Family tree Werkman-Schoolderman » Frederik van Duren (1885-????)

Birthday March 21, 1885

• The temperature on March 21, 1885 was about 2.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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
  • January 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
  • March 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
  • March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
  • December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » George David Birkhoff, American mathematician († 1944)
• 1885 » Pierre Renoir, French actor and director († 1952)
• 1886 » Walter Dray, American pole vaulter († 1973)
• 1887 » Clarice Beckett, Australian painter († 1935)
• 1887 » Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and painter († 1967)
• 1887 » M. N. Roy, Indian philosopher and politician († 1954)