Database Van Broekhoven » Gerardus Nollen (1789-????)

Birthday June 29, 1789

• The temperature on June 29, 1789 was about 10.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind 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
  • July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
  • July 14 » Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
  • July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
  • August 4 » France: Members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
  • August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
  • September 22 » Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1787 » Lavinia Stoddard, American poet, school founder († 1820)
• 1793 » Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller († 1857)
• 1798 » Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher († 1837)
• 1798 » Willibald Alexis, German author and poet († 1871)
• 1801 » Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist († 1850)
• 1803 » John Newton Brown, American minister and author († 1868)