Verkaik uit het Groene Hart » Freerk Jansz. Ras (1826-1906)

Day of marriage February 25, 1871

• The temperature on February 25, 1871 was about 7.3 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
  • March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
  • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
  • May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
  • June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
  • October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".

Day of death April 10, 1906

• The temperature on April 10, 1906 was between 3.4 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
  • April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
  • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Isabella II, Spanish queen (b. 1830)
• 1909 » Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (b. 1879)
• 1920 » Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (b. 1829)
• 1931 » Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1935 » Rosa Campbell Praed, Australian novelist (b. 1851)