Family tree Van der Waal » zoon KALIS (1883)

Birthday April 14, 1883

• The temperature on April 14, 1883 was about 10.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 16 » The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
  • January 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
  • May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
  • June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
  • August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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• 1876 » Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge († 1934)
• 1881 » Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar († 1948)
• 1882 » Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1936)
• 1886 » Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet and translator († 1928)
• 1886 » Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar († 1956)
• 1889 » Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian and academic († 1975)