Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Joseph-2 BLAIS (1789-????)

Birthday April 7, 1789

• The temperature on April 7, 1789 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer 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 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
  • February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
  • April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
  • June 8 » James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
  • July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
  • September 24 » The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1770 » William Wordsworth, English poet († 1850)
• 1772 » Charles Fourier, French philosopher and author († 1837)
• 1780 » William Ellery Channing, American preacher and theologian († 1842)
• 1803 » Flora Tristan, French author and activist († 1844)
• 1803 » James Curtiss, American journalist and politician, 11th Mayor of Chicago († 1859)
• 1811 » Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher († 1881)