Family tree Wicquart » Elie Emile François CONSEIL (1885-????)

Birthday January 10, 1885

• The temperature on January 10, 1885 was about 5.7 °C. There was 17 mm of rain. The air pressure was 37 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 1 » Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
  • March 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
  • May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
  • August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
  • September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
  • November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Manuel Azaña, Spanish jurist and politician, 7th President of Spain († 1940)
• 1883 » Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet († 1945)
• 1883 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1966)
• 1887 » Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher († 1962)
• 1890 » Pina Menichelli, Italian actress († 1984)
• 1891 » Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic († 1970)