See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 14 - President
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the
French Second Republic.
January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal.
Devil's Island penal colony opens.
February 11 - First British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London.
February 15 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits first patient.
February 16 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile
manufacturer, is established.
November - Franklin Pierce defeats Winfield Scott in the U.S. presidential election.
November 7 - President Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III of France.
November 21/November 22 New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for,
253,000 against.
December 2 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
Births:
January 21 -
Dina Kwik.
February 13 -
Maarten van den Houten.
February 22 -
Jacobus Oosterling.
March 5 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
April 1 -
Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter.
April 13 -
F.W. Woolworth, merchant/businessman, founder of Woolworth's.
April 22 - Grand Duke
Guillaume IV of Luxembourg.
May 4 -
Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
May 31 -
Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist, inventor of Petri dish.
June 9 -
Jan Berman.
June 24 -
Elisabeth Voogd.
August 11 -
Izak Leendert van As(t).
August 12 -
Jan van den Houten.
September 12 -
Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
September 17 -
Kaatje Verschoor.
Sepember 26 -
Teunis Vreeswijk.
October 8 -
Adriaantje Hart.
October 28 -
Nicolaas Kamerling.
November 1 -
Laurens van der Laan.
November 5 -
Marinus Maller.
November 11 -
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, chief of Austro-Hungarian general staff for
much of World War I.
December 15 -
Henri Becquerel, French physicist.
Deaths:
January 4 -
Hendrina Raap.
January 6 -
Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind.
April 15 -
Marinus van den Houten.
September 14 -
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British commander at the Battle
of Waterloo and Prime Minister.
September 18 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
September 20 -
Jan Reedijk.
November 14 -
Klazina van den Houten.
November 30 -
Junius Brutus Booth, English actor.
December 10 -
Teunis Vreeswijk.
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