Genealogy Brederoo » Maria Johanna van Paassen (1877-????)

Birthday April 25, 1877

• The temperature on April 25, 1877 was about 5.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• 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 1877: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
  • February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
  • July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
  • July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
  • August 9 » Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Howard Garis, American author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories († 1962)
• 1873 » Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1956)
• 1874 » Ernest Webb, English-Canadian race walker († 1937)
• 1874 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1876 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician († 1958)
• 1878 » William Merz, American gymnast and triathlete († 1946)