Genealogy Richard en Marquardt » marie sophie DENIS (1787-????)

Birthday September 4, 1787

• The temperature on September 4, 1787 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1787: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
  • July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
  • August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
  • October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
  • December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1755 » Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician († 1810)
• 1768 » François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France († 1848)
• 1776 » Stephen Whitney, American businessman († 1860)
• 1798 » Raynold Kaufgetz, Swiss soldier, economist, and politician († 1869)
• 1809 » Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet and playwright († 1849)
• 1809 » Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile († 1880)