Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Marie Genevieve Fontaine (1787-1814)

Birthday September 12, 1787

• The temperature on September 12, 1787 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. 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.
  • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
  • 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 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
  • December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1768 » Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher († 1831)
• 1797 » Samuel Joseph May, American activist († 1871)
• 1812 » Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist († 1878)
• 1812 » Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press († 1886)
• 1818 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun († 1903)
• 1818 » Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator († 1882)